FastSaying

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.


Michael Greger

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

(Low iron count) is higher in women. We recommend eating food like red meat or leafy green vegetable...
CORTNEY MARTIN You get more food for fewer calories, plant foods being low or no calorie and virtually fat-free. Ev...
AUDREY EYTON I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put ...
PAUL O'GRADY I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.
PAUL O'GRADY Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we...
WYLIE DUFRESNE Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he absolutely had to.
UNKNOWN What could be the HEALTHIEST FOOD? A vegetable called KALE. Lacinato Kale...with the darkest green l...
LORRIN L. LEE No one knows if green-tea supplements have the same health benefits as drinking tea itself. Most sci...
JOE SIMRANY The participants in the study ate a vegan diet and ate as many fruits, vegetables, whole grains and ...
DR. NEAL BARNARD I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien...
GAYLE KING Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas w...
MARILU HENNER Right now it's the biggest Whole Foods in the Boston area. So much of the food industry is moving to...
ANNE WILSON For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in...
DON KARDONG Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and ...
WILLOW CROSS The offer was you could fly 10 segments and get 2,000 extra E.Q.M.'s per segment, as well as the nor...
BILL SCANNELL I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits pe...
MAGNUS SCHEVING The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arr...
VACLAV KLAUS Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here ...
L.J. SMITH I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? H...
SAMANTHA POWER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW It's fast-food with a twist. Certain take-out restaurants promote their food as calorie or fat consc...
ADAM OLLAND Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...
MASANOBU FUKUOKA It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b...
GAIL SIMMONS The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner t...
NEIL YOUNG If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD We offer fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole-grain crackers and lots of healthy snacks.
DIANE SMITH Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
BREE DESPAIN When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me a...
STEPHEN KING Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
RICHELLE MEAD Eat your spinach and you'll grow up big and strong like Popeye. You'll also end up with a girlfriend...
UNKNOWN I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is i...
DAVID RAKOFF To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Do we have the green light here? As far as green lights go, it's about as green as you can get.
RAJA BELL Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER It's realistic. There are common principles in all of the healthy diets - exercise, more fruits and ...
LORI JONES Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweet...
DAVID PERLMUTTER We need __most to understand nature.
CLINTON HILL .........DEFENDER OF THE PLANET AND A NATURE LOVER. McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or ...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT You should get out of here. Have a good life.
BREE DESPAIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES People change. Young people don't cook as much as they used to. They want quick food. They don't buy...
BILLY LEONARD If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you o...
JASON FRIED And now it is said of me
That my love is nothing because I have borne no children,
Or bec...
JAMES WRIGHT Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish...
J.K. ROWLING My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me ...
AIMEE BENDER Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... Many times, the right man gets outnumbered by false and wrong people while the other true and honest...
APURVA GAGLANI Knowing "Attitude is Everything" is just right, but understanding what the right attitude is truly i...
ANUJ SOMANY We need schools to stand on the side of parents who want to teach good nutrition, not on the side of...
GARY RUSKIN It's best to choose varieties that list a whole grain as the first ingredient, and offer at least th...
ELISA ZIED I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An...
C.J. ROBERTS We don't want to eat any more of that kind of food. You've got to throw it in the sea.
JOSE BOVE The latest food guide no longer has four food groups. Whole grains take first place. Raw fruits and ...
DENISE DOWELL Eating adequate amounts of lean proteins and eating fewer processed foods leads to a lower risk in h...
JOAN QUINN People are getting more sophisticated about the foods they eat.
CAITLIN HUNTER What these lists demonstrate is that we have been safely consuming foods containing biotech ingredie...
GENE GRABOWSKI We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
STEPHEN KING One of the most important decisions people can make about their health is the choice of foods they e...
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most...
ADAM WINGARD Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.
STEPHEN KING For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
GREG RUCKA The best foods for your body are organic whole foods. Mostly raw. Just the way nature made them.
LORRIN L. LEE The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old ag...
GEORGE SANTAYANA We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
JOEL SALATIN People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS One reason that many people don't eat enough fruits and vegetables is that these foods often aren't ...
ELISA ZIED Back when I was in school, one of our goals in food science was expanding the food supply by taking ...
DANIEL FLETCHER There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as ...
NORMAN PIRIE We actually eat less than our ancestors, despite the fact that we eat more than we should. Since we ...
DAVID KATZ We're making a mark. We're putting Richmond on the map as far as healthy foods go.
DOUG ROBERTS With food distribution, you need to get into a well recognized and well respected retailer early. Wh...
ADRIAN GRUNDY Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
DOUG LARSON

More Michael Greger

You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w...
MICHAEL GREGER A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain whe...
MICHAEL GREGER Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, ...
MICHAEL GREGER Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapp...
MICHAEL GREGER Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences ag...
MICHAEL GREGER If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually res...
MICHAEL GREGER Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and b...
MICHAEL GREGER The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being br...
MICHAEL GREGER Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help cl...
MICHAEL GREGER You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall...
MICHAEL GREGER Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.
MICHAEL GREGER The Iowa Women's Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eati...
MICHAEL GREGER Tart cherries lower the levels of inflammation in the body, which may be particularly useful for tho...
MICHAEL GREGER Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained w...
MICHAEL GREGER Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinoge...
MICHAEL GREGER While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, po...
MICHAEL GREGER The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to th...
MICHAEL GREGER Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgi...
MICHAEL GREGER Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it&#...
MICHAEL GREGER Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, bo...
MICHAEL GREGER Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most ...
MICHAEL GREGER Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their...
MICHAEL GREGER One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is becau...
MICHAEL GREGER The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agricu...
MICHAEL GREGER So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of ...
MICHAEL GREGER In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions hav...
MICHAEL GREGER One of the worst things you can do if you're worried about breast cancer is to cook beef, pork, ...
MICHAEL GREGER About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another...
MICHAEL GREGER The fumes produced by frying bacon contain carcinogens called nitrosamines. Though all meat may rele...
MICHAEL GREGER When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutat...
MICHAEL GREGER We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.
MICHAEL GREGER High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to dise...
MICHAEL GREGER When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken ...
MICHAEL GREGER In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and...
MICHAEL GREGER Although even light exercise is associated with a lowered risk of some other types of cancer, for br...
MICHAEL GREGER Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.
MICHAEL GREGER Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.
MICHAEL GREGER Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-...
MICHAEL GREGER Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure ...
MICHAEL GREGER Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African o...
MICHAEL GREGER Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don'...
MICHAEL GREGER Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigg...
MICHAEL GREGER The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disa...
MICHAEL GREGER While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine f...
MICHAEL GREGER After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researcher...
MICHAEL GREGER Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only beca...
MICHAEL GREGER A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three ser...
MICHAEL GREGER Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play anoth...
MICHAEL GREGER Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptibl...
MICHAEL GREGER The results were very upbeat. However, Sony Ericsson may have lost market share compared to the four...
GREGER JOHANSSON The mobile systems side is doing well, but Marconi and the fixed-line side are weighing heavily.
GREGER JOHANSSON Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON The read-across from particularly Lucent, but also Motorola, on Ericsson is limited.
GREGER JOHANSSON We expect strong fourth-quarter results but foresee abating organic growth and falling margins in 20...
GREGER JOHANSSON Nokia will have a tough time boosting its margins in the future given the tough competitive climate.
GREGER JOHANSSON I think the share price will open unchanged or dip somewhat due to the fact that both the gross and ...
GREGER JOHANSSON I wanted a bath, even if it were dust. A strigil to scrape the skin that I couldn’t crawl out of.
DEBORA GREGER There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression.
MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to undere...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwritin...
MICHAEL MORPURGO My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI