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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Phil Collins

Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.

3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

3 December 2020 Anne Boyd

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.

3 December 2020 Pete Townshend

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I’m not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

3 December 2020 Dar Williams

If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.

3 December 2020 Sean Hayes

I think because my life is so insane and it’s constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.

3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Netanyahu

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

3 December 2020 Ivan Pavlov

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

3 December 2020 Simone Weil

The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

3 December 2020 Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

3 December 2020 Michael Schumacher

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

3 December 2020 James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

3 December 2020 Bell Hooks

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

3 December 2020 Toni Morrison

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

3 December 2020 Agnes Bruckner

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

3 December 2020 Midge Ure

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don’t get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

3 December 2020 Pat Summitt

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics’ dreams for their children to live a better life.

3 December 2020 Mark Wahlberg

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse

Those other 10 o’clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

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