Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down...
SIMONE BILES I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the...
SIMONE BILES A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I...
SIMONE BILES At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
SIMONE BILES I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.
SIMONE BILES The support down here in Rio has been amazing - between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg'...
SIMONE BILES I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it.
SIMONE BILES I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.
SIMONE BILES I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
SIMONE BILES The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.
SIMONE BILES I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out mor...
SIMONE BILES Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen.
SIMONE BILES Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more success...
SIMONE BILES If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with y...
SIMONE BILES If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the ...
SIMONE BILES I take things one step at a time.
SIMONE BILES It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body...
SIMONE BILES If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.
SIMONE BILES For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus...
SIMONE BILES It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperon...
SIMONE BILES I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm ...
SIMONE BILES For me, I don't think about size - I focus more on being powerful and confident.
SIMONE BILES I don't really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I ju...
SIMONE BILES I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.
SIMONE BILES The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially ...
SIMONE BILES As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, y...
SIMONE BILES Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron s...
SIMONE BILES I have dual citizenship.
SIMONE BILES They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped...
SIMONE BILES I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I'v...
SIMONE BILES At some point, I'll have to go get a real job.
SIMONE BILES I spend a lot of time in the gym training, and Core Power is a great fit for my nutritional needs.
SIMONE BILES I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
SIMONE BILES I'm thrilled that I was able to share my first Olympic Games experience with my U.S. teammates.
SIMONE BILES My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll...
SIMONE BILES When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
SIMONE BILES Most storage data is not subject to regulatory oversight.
BRIAN BILES There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
SIMONE WEIL The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
SIMONE WEIL For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEIL To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
SIMONE WEIL Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
SIMONE WEIL I can, therefore I am.
SIMONE WEIL I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the re...
NINA SIMONE Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
HANNAH SIMONE I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
HANNAH SIMONE It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more p...
HANNAH SIMONE My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.
HANNAH SIMONE Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and...
HANNAH SIMONE Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then t...
HANNAH SIMONE Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
HANNAH SIMONE Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge li...
HANNAH SIMONE I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be cel...
HANNAH SIMONE The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au...
HANNAH SIMONE You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
HANNAH SIMONE I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized ...
HANNAH SIMONE It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional worki...
HANNAH SIMONE When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get...
HANNAH SIMONE A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pl...
SIMONE WEIL Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
SIMONE WEIL Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
SIMONE WEIL Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
SIMONE WEIL Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se...
SIMONE WEIL To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i...
SIMONE WEIL Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...
SIMONE WEIL A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti...
SIMONE WEIL What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all st...
SIMONE WEIL When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
SIMONE WEIL A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEIL An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is th...
SIMONE WEIL If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy mo...
SIMONE WEIL Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
SIMONE WEIL I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in ...
SIMONE WEIL The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more ...
SIMONE WEIL The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for s...
SIMONE WEIL Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manuf...
SIMONE WEIL The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons o...
SIMONE WEIL It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a ...
SIMONE WEIL Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the princi...
SIMONE WEIL At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is some...
SIMONE WEIL Under the name of truth I also included beauty, virtue, and every kind of goodness, so that for me i...
SIMONE WEIL Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
SIMONE WEIL Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of p...
SIMONE WEIL The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
SIMONE WEIL A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in w...
SIMONE WEIL We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
SIMONE WEIL Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
SIMONE WEIL A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates...
SIMONE WEIL When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due t...
SIMONE WEIL When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outsid...
SIMONE WEIL Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEIL Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
SIMONE WEIL Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is deta...
SIMONE WEIL If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ce...
SIMONE WEIL With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorro...
SIMONE WEIL Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them thei...
SIMONE WEIL One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
SIMONE WEIL Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
SIMONE WEIL A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is ple...
SIMONE WEIL Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to ...
SIMONE WEIL We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. W...
SIMONE WEIL In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produce...
SIMONE WEIL Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them the...
SIMONE WEIL The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost ...
SIMONE WEIL To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEIL In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in bloss...
SIMONE WEIL The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occas...
SIMONE WEIL Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary go...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life
SIMONE WEIL You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn'...
SIMONE ELKELES The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as ...
SIMONE WEIL To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded...
SIMONE WEIL Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, whe...
SIMONE WEIL Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelt...
HANNAH SIMONE I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into...
HANNAH SIMONE The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a sta...
SIMONE WEIL I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
SIMONE SIGNORET I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's question...
SIMONE SIGNORET He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.
SIMONE SIGNORET Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefor...
SIMONE SIGNORET I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
SIMONE SIGNORET You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
SIMONE SIGNORET Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
SIMONE SIGNORET When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
SIMONE SIGNORET If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
SIMONE SIGNORET There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly h...
SIMONE SIGNORET It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren...
HANNAH SIMONE I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
HANNAH SIMONE Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people to...
SIMONE SIGNORET Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
HANNAH SIMONE You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out ...
SIMONE ELKELES When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are p...
SIMONE ELKELES Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way m...
SIMONE ELKELES Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now...
NINA SIMONE I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes ro...
SIMONE ELKELES I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the worl...
NINA SIMONE We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expr...
SIMONE ELKELES [Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the pat...
SIMONE ELKELES I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, ...
SIMONE ELKELES When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.
NINA SIMONE Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ...
NINA SIMONE Humility is attentive patience.
SIMONE WEIL It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics ...
SIMONE WEIL This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bough...
NINA SIMONE