Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Les Brown

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Thomas Huxley

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Dolly Parton

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
Phil Harris

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Charles Baudelaire

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
Ella Maillart

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
David Foster Wallace

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut