Clay Aiken quote: "I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets."

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp...
CLAY AIKEN

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global ...
CLAY AIKEN

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...
CLAY AIKEN

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined...
CLAY AIKEN

I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!
CLAY AIKEN

I embrace the Nerd.
CLAY AIKEN

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myse...
CLAY AIKEN

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
CLAY AIKEN

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, b...
CLAY AIKEN

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
CLAY AIKEN

It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ...
CLAY AIKEN

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
CLAY AIKEN

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy w...
CLAY AIKEN

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
CLAY AIKEN

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
CLAY AIKEN

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you ...
CLAY AIKEN

I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ...
CLAY AIKEN

Whether this ride lasts for one year or 10 years, I want to have a home base.
CLAY AIKEN

I spent years and years in middle school getting picked on, so I'm kind of used it,
CLAY AIKEN

Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n...
CLAY AIKEN

I have a feeling they are probably mostly ladies,
CLAY AIKEN

Reach Out (I'll Be There).
CLAY AIKEN

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
CLAY AIKEN

You don't have to be around people you are related to be with family.
CLAY AIKEN

Actually, I don’t hate cats, I’m just kind of afraid of them.
CLAY AIKEN

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.
CLAY AIKEN

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of cha...
CLAY AIKEN

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping...
CLAY AIKEN

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or m...
CLAY AIKEN

All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too.
CLAY AIKEN

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
CLAY AIKEN

There's stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.
CLAY AIKEN

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a...
CLAY AIKEN

I did get a degree in special education.
CLAY AIKEN

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. Tha...
CLAY AIKEN

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you...
CLAY AIKEN

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record cont...
CLAY AIKEN

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a ...
HOWARD AIKEN

May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either...
HOWARD AIKEN

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
HOWARD AIKEN

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN

This is a program that's working.
ALAN AIKEN

I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a ...
ALAN AIKEN

At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.
ALAN AIKEN

People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed.
ALAN AIKEN

Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.
ALAN AIKEN

People are really benefiting from this intervention.
ALAN AIKEN

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know
CONRAD AIKEN

I love you, what star do you live on?
CONRAD AIKEN

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sun...
CONRAD AIKEN

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunl...
CONRAD AIKEN

I don’t like this,” his brother told him as they walked down the stairs.

“You don�...
G.A. AIKEN

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their thro...
HOWARD AIKEN

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical dif...
HOWARD AIKEN

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human ...
HOWARD AIKEN

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now ...
CONRAD AIKEN

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them ...
HOWARD AIKEN

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them d...
HOWARD AIKEN

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
GEORGE AIKEN

I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dis...
G.A. AIKEN

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's no...
CONRAD AIKEN

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the r...
GEORGE AIKEN

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
GEORGE AIKEN

When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was ...
JOHN AIKEN

It's all ahead of you.
JOHN AIKEN

They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this p...
JOHN AIKEN

It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides.
JOHN AIKEN

There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of ...
JOHN AIKEN

Up front, the quarter was fantastic.
JOHN AIKEN

I think that's the area that's most disappointing.
JOHN AIKEN

It's just streamlining the operation.
DOUGLAS AIKEN

Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Ho...
DOUGLAS AIKEN

This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.
DOUGLAS AIKEN

I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.
DOUGLAS AIKEN

We don't always connect ourselves with our history.
LINDA AIKEN

I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however.
LINDA AIKEN

All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.
LINDA AIKEN

We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity...
LINDA AIKEN

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
CONRAD AIKEN

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them do...
HOWARD AIKEN

Then he stalked off into the woods, leaving Talaith alone.
Good. Now I can panic in peace.
G.A. AIKEN

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like ...
CONRAD AIKEN

The men watched as Annwyl the Bloody took a stand against something from their darkest nightmares. T...
G.A. AIKEN

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters...
CONRAD AIKEN

Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least ...
CONRAD AIKEN

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our r...
GEORGE AIKEN

The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work.
PAUL AIKEN

This sounds like the way to go. If there is a new way to extract value from a book, then the author ...
PAUL AIKEN

Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may...
PAUL AIKEN

It certainly is a threat.
PAUL AIKEN

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Inte...
PAUL AIKEN

I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for comm...
PAUL AIKEN

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations...
PAUL AIKEN

It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading...
PAUL AIKEN

It would have set an awful precedent..
PAUL AIKEN

We've never heard of anything like this. It really undermines the author's credibility and authority...
PAUL AIKEN

What are you doing?” she asked.

“Getting naked.”

“What the hells for?�...
G.A. AIKEN

. “And I stole some oxen jerky out of Bercelak’s bag. He makes the best oxen jerky.”

G.A. AIKEN

I’m your uncle?”

Oh. So that’s what was bothering him. Izzy could have done a lot o...
G.A. AIKEN

To be honest, Briec doesn’t
consider fights with humans as battles. I think he sees that more...
G.A. AIKEN

Morfyd’s care.
As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s...
G.A. AIKEN

The Company is working aggressively to continue this trend toward profitability.
THOMAS AIKEN

My drive went left of the fairway and I had a bad lie. I tried to play for the front left of the gre...
THOMAS AIKEN

I'm telling you, my heart was beating in my throat over the last four holes.
THOMAS AIKEN

It's pretty tough out there, and if you miss the fairways or the greens, you are dead. But I am enjo...
THOMAS AIKEN

Im telling you, my heart was beating in my throat over the last four holes. This is a huge opportuni...
THOMAS AIKEN

I had a triple and a double and still managed to shoot 70. Not bad. It's not easy to get your mind o...
THOMAS AIKEN

And then what are your plans?”
Annwyl frowned. “My plans?”
“Yes. Your plans. You...
G.A. AIKEN

He sneered at his father. “He’ll live. I’m going after her.”
“What?” His sister sto...
G.A. AIKEN

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?
G.A. AIKEN

What’s going on?”
“Nothing.” She coughed, and released Talaith’s hand. “Except
G.A. AIKEN

As he was
forced to tell his father more than once, “I said I’d fight for my mother’s
G.A. AIKEN

Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm...
G.A. AIKEN

Lady Talaith. Is that what you’re wearing to dinner tonight?”
...
“And exactly when ...
G.A. AIKEN

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram...
HOWARD AIKEN

Of course you don’t trust Braith. You don’t trust anybody,” Ghleanna reminded their brother. �...
G.A. AIKEN

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now s...
CONRAD AIKEN

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and...
CONRAD AIKEN

Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more tha...
G.A. AIKEN

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
GEORGE AIKEN

Americans are up to their eyeballs in debt. The schools raise tuition each year, the loan totals go ...
GARY AIKEN

I am going to start offering this in early April. I?m patriotic.
GARY AIKEN

We’re not talking about you. You’re Braith of the Darkness. I’m Addolgar the Cheerful. I’ve ...
G.A. AIKEN

You can stick your questions up your ass.”
He slammed his tail in front of her. “I don’t ...
G.A. AIKEN

It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing r...
CONRAD AIKEN

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i...
CLAY SHIRKY

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to hav...
CLAY SHIRKY

With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire...
CLAY CLARK

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; fro...
HENRY CLAY

Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each ...
CLAY CLARK

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
HENRY CLAY

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
HENRY CLAY

I'd rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
HENRY CLAY

There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, ...
HENRY CLAY

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not th...
CLAY SHIRKY

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.
CLAY GUIDA

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no We...
HENRY CLAY

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of characte...
HENRY CLAY

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but ...
HENRY CLAY

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ...
CLAY SHIRKY

rock 'n' roll of comedy.
ANDREW CLAY

We celebrated holidays together, ... He came over to my house all the time.
ANDREW CLAY

Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching...
ANDREW CLAY

There was a coolness about him, ... He used to wear these sunglasses and these shirts that had pictu...
ANDREW CLAY

I don't drink to get happy or to forget the pain. I drink to stop the voices in my head. Do you know...
ANDREW CLAY

If you are a company of the size where you can bang a drum and get politicians interested over here ...
ANDREW CLAY

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving compa...
CLAY CLARK

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
BRYAN CLAY

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You...
CLAY CLARK

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and ap...
HENRY CLAY

It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your...
CLAY CLARK

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
HENRY CLAY

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the ...
HENRY CLAY

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.
BRYAN CLAY

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.
BRYAN CLAY

I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ......
BRYAN CLAY

[Sebrle, 30, visited Clay, 25, in California this spring for training and golf.] Roman's a good golf...
BRYAN CLAY

[Clay handled the weather - chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy - as well as the competition.] This w...
BRYAN CLAY

I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here.
BRYAN CLAY

I am just happy to still be in the medals to be going home with another silver medal.
BRYAN CLAY

Even though I'm what people call a 'world-class athlete,' I have to do all the same things doctors a...
BRYAN CLAY

[Clay handled the weather ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy Ãƒ...
BRYAN CLAY

I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these...
BRYAN CLAY

On any given day one of us could have won. I'm just glad it went my way. Roman was there every step ...
BRYAN CLAY

Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more t...
CLAY CLARK

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and ...
HENRY CLAY

The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of...
HENRY CLAY

When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after yea...
CLAY CLARK

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
HENRY CLAY

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no ...
HENRY CLAY

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character...
HENRY CLAY

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation ...
HENRY CLAY

I had rather be right than be President.
HENRY CLAY

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, pol...
HENRY CLAY

Statistics are no substitute for judgment
HENRY CLAY

If the Hornets go back to New Orleans, I expect we'll get a franchise. There haven't been any promis...
CLAY BENNETT

It's tough to beat somebody three times. Give Owyhee credit, they played hard and hit their shots.
CLAY FITCH

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and ap...
HENRY CLAY

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the t...
HENRY CLAY

I would rather be right than President
HENRY CLAY

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but...
HENRY CLAY

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled c...
HENRY CLAY

We played our hearts out,
HENRY CLAY

When we get an open look, we have to shoot and shoot on goal, ... We had some open looks today and p...
HENRY CLAY

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazil; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from...
HENRY CLAY

I am a little surprised by those scores,
HENRY CLAY

(Lafayette) came out and just played really hard and we didn't even come close to matching their int...
HENRY CLAY

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the env...
CLAY SHIRKY

Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of wor...
CLAY CLARK

Over the life cycle of that airplane, we're absolutely confident we're going to get 50% or more.
CLAY MCCONNELL

Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that...
CLAY SHIRKY

[As for Bartlett's game (he's a 12.3 and cited by several sources as the best golfer in the White Ho...
CLAY JOHNSON

I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.

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Clay Aiken

I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.

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