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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

3 December 2020 David Ogilvy

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

3 December 2020 Ann Landers

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

3 December 2020 Emma Thompson

The trouble is it’s very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

3 December 2020 Ruth Gordon

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

3 December 2020 Robert Falcon Scott

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

3 December 2020 Jason Mraz

If I’m in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

3 December 2020 Germaine Greer

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

3 December 2020 Jane Smiley

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

3 December 2020 Mike Pence

It’s time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

3 December 2020 Jim Morrison

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

3 December 2020 Shakira

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

3 December 2020 David Hobson

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

3 December 2020 Hugo Chavez

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

3 December 2020 Dorothy Day

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

Stand-up is like a row boat: it’s fun and romantic when you’re choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it’s not as enjoyable that’s survival.

3 December 2020 Elliott Erwitt

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

3 December 2020 Jean Paul

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

3 December 2020 Travis Barker

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

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