Skip to content
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Rosalind Russell

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

3 December 2020 Michael Weatherly

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

3 December 2020 Tony Blair

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

3 December 2020 Chris Rock

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

I think there’s a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

3 December 2020 Emmanuelle Chriqui

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn’t have ‘yes’ parents.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

3 December 2020 Jordin Sparks

It’s funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said ‘Sparkle,’ I thought, ‘For real? It’s really called ‘Sparkle?” I was wondering, too, how does ‘Jordin Sparks as Sparkle’ sound?

3 December 2020 Thomas Frank

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation’s business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

3 December 2020 Robert Benchley

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

3 December 2020 James Earl Jones

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.

3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

3 December 2020 Bill Shuster

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.

3 December 2020 Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

3 December 2020 Brittany Snow

I mean, I’m pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I’m like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I’m just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

3 December 2020 John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

3 December 2020 Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

3 December 2020 Hans Christian Anderson

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

3 December 2020 Steve Prefontaine

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

3 December 2020 Chris Tucker

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Hudgens

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

3 December 2020 H. P. Lovecraft

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

3 December 2020 Francoise Sagan

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 1,240 1,241 1,242 1,243 1,244 … 1,862 Next Posts»

Tags

age alone amazing art beauty best business change dad death education experience faith fear food freedom funny future god happiness health history home hope knowledge learning marriage mom money morning movies Music Nature Peace Poetry Politics relationship Religion Respect Science Society Success Truth War Women

Recommend Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Albert Einstein
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Plato
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Mark Twain
  • Aristotle
  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Voltaire
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • William Shakespeare
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sophocles
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Alexander Pope
  • Confucius
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Martin Luther
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ovid
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Euripides
  • John Lennon
  • Socrates
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Mother Teresa
  • Baruch Spinoza