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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

3 December 2020 George McGovern

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society’s ills.

3 December 2020 Henny Youngman

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

3 December 2020 M. C. Escher

My work is a game, a very serious game.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

3 December 2020 Henry George

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

3 December 2020 Nick Lampson

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it’s still a fantastic, amazing place.

3 December 2020 Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

3 December 2020 Bill O'Reilly

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

3 December 2020 Tom Cruise

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

3 December 2020 Amy Lowell

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

3 December 2020 Javier Bardem

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it’s not like it’s a bible.

3 December 2020 Gail Porter

My parents’ marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren’t good for each other.

3 December 2020 Dan Savage

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson

In my heart, I’m an Alabaman who went up north to work.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

3 December 2020 Simeon Strunsky

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

3 December 2020 George Carey

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

3 December 2020 George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.

3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

3 December 2020 John Dykstra

You had to make a camera look like it’s traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn’t make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

3 December 2020 Ouida

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot

I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

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