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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

3 December 2020 Two Chainz

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

3 December 2020 Rob Lowe

I have other obligations now – the show, my family, my life… though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn’t have any of those things.

3 December 2020 Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

3 December 2020 Cindy Crawford

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

3 December 2020 Alfred Austin

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

3 December 2020 E. W. Howe

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

3 December 2020 Gary Ryan Blair

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

3 December 2020 Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

3 December 2020 Thomas Lovell Beddoes

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

3 December 2020 Richard L. Evans

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

3 December 2020 Tim McGraw

I feel like that I’m learning all the time. I’m learning from new artists, from established artists… every time I listen to ’70s rock ‘n’ roll records, I’m learning. And I think that I’m just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

3 December 2020 John D. Rockefeller

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

3 December 2020 Don Rickles

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can’t please everyone. But when you’re different, you can last.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!’

3 December 2020 Felicity Huffman

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it’s how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

3 December 2020 Bob Corker

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it’s sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

3 December 2020 Suzanne Somers

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

3 December 2020 Dan Abrams

Some people think I’m a total moron and I would hope most people think I’m very good at what I do.

3 December 2020 Pope Benedict XVI

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

3 December 2020 Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

3 December 2020 Dana Fox

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That’s going to be really, really hard. I’m glad I learned the lesson, ‘Failure is OK.’

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

3 December 2020 Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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