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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Mike Mills

To me, sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.

3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

3 December 2020 Alicia Keys

When I was first learning songs, I’d have a favorite song, and I’d take the chords and twist them around. I’d learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

3 December 2020 Summer Altice

People think, ‘She’s a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.’ But I’m normal. I cry. I’m not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

3 December 2020 Andre Gide

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roethke

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

3 December 2020 Samuel Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock

It’s called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

3 December 2020 Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

3 December 2020 Alan Perlis

You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

3 December 2020 Alex Cox

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it’s a big problem.

3 December 2020 Allan Bloom

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is.

3 December 2020 Harvey Ball

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

3 December 2020 Elton Gallegly

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

3 December 2020 Felix Adler

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

3 December 2020 Nancy Banks Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.

3 December 2020 Mark Morris

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

3 December 2020 Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

3 December 2020 Judd Nelson

I just couldn’t go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland’s suicide. I didn’t see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

3 December 2020 Ed O'Neill

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

3 December 2020 Brian Tracy

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

3 December 2020 Josh Bowman

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

3 December 2020 Leslie Mann

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is ‘Harold and Maude.’

3 December 2020 Dan Quayle

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

3 December 2020 Princess Diana

I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.

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