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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson

You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

3 December 2020 Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

3 December 2020 Ted Allen

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.

3 December 2020 Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

3 December 2020 Will Durst

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

3 December 2020 Rose Tremain

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general – as we all do in our dreams – I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

3 December 2020 Colin Firth

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

3 December 2020 Marla Maples

I don’t think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman

I’ve always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

3 December 2020 Amy Lowell

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

3 December 2020 Lukas Haas

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That’s the problem.

3 December 2020 Dante Hall

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would… but its just impossible to get to everyone.

3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.

3 December 2020 Peter Jackson

What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

3 December 2020 Willie Nelson

America, to me, is freedom.

3 December 2020 Emil Ludwig

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

3 December 2020 Ted Nelson

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve

I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

3 December 2020 Ville Valo

It’s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

3 December 2020 Naomi Campbell

I love England, especially the food. There’s nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

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