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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Lou Gramm

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

3 December 2020 Ralph Ellison

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

3 December 2020 Mark Pincus

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction.

3 December 2020 Malcolm Muggeridge

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

3 December 2020 Jack LaLanne

We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

3 December 2020 Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

3 December 2020 Frank A. Clark

Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie

And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

3 December 2020 Walter Gropius

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

3 December 2020 Marcel Carne

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

3 December 2020 Kate Moss

I have made some of the best friends that I’ve got in this business.

3 December 2020 Bono

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

3 December 2020 Brandy Norwood

I’ve always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I’m right on schedule.

3 December 2020 Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

3 December 2020 Robert Moog

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

3 December 2020 Chen Shui-bian

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

3 December 2020 William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

3 December 2020 Cat Deeley

I don’t feel any pressure to lose weight – and in any case, if I didn’t have my food I’d be a nasty piece of work and wouldn’t be able to function.

3 December 2020 Ezra Pound

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

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