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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Vin Diesel

I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

3 December 2020 Lynn Redgrave

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you’d planned.

3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

3 December 2020 Pericles

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

3 December 2020 James Dyson

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

3 December 2020 Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

3 December 2020 Julian Clary

I’m currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

3 December 2020 David Bailey

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

3 December 2020 Jon Stewart

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

3 December 2020 Fergie

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

3 December 2020 Walter Gilbert

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

3 December 2020 Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I’m lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what’s out there and see what’s happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

3 December 2020 Nick Offerman

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

3 December 2020 James Merrill

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

3 December 2020 Viktor E. Frankl

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.

3 December 2020 Recep Tayyip Erdogan

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Clift

You get elected, often, if you’re a woman, on the strength of the women’s vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.

3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor

I’m not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn’t think my schedule looked so busy.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

3 December 2020 Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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