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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Anatole France

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.

3 December 2020 Robert Millikan

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

3 December 2020 Lee DeWyze

I’d love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He’s amazing.

3 December 2020 Audre Lorde

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960’s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

3 December 2020 Robert W. Service

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.

3 December 2020 Story Musgrave

Poetry is its own medium it’s very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

3 December 2020 Miley Cyrus

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, ‘How do we get one of those?’ and she was like, ‘You can’t get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?’

3 December 2020 Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

3 December 2020 Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

3 December 2020 Paula Cole

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

3 December 2020 Natan Sharansky

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

3 December 2020 Bart Starr

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

3 December 2020 Gloria Swanson

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

3 December 2020 Kris Allen

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

3 December 2020 Bernie Taupin

Don’t call my lyrics poetry. It’s an insult to real poets.

3 December 2020 James Buchan

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

3 December 2020 Octavia Butler

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

3 December 2020 Kenny Loggins

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

3 December 2020 Fran Drescher

I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

3 December 2020 Gary Numan

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad’s way: you got a job and paid your way.

3 December 2020 Anna Torv

I’m terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they’re not funny. I end up saying, ‘Oh, no, I’m joking, I’m joking.’

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

3 December 2020 Robert Benchley

Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

3 December 2020 Heather Morris

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

3 December 2020 Ned Rorem

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

3 December 2020 John M. McHugh

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars.

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