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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Kurt Russell

I played professional level sports. When you’re playing for money, it’s a whole other level.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

3 December 2020 Gary Numan

I’ve got Asperger’s syndrome and I’m not a very good people person, so I’ve always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way – I don’t want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

I couldn’t be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you’re ridiculed.

3 December 2020 Rachel Roy

I’m thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people’s lives.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

3 December 2020 Jack Kingston

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

3 December 2020 Auguste Rodin

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

3 December 2020 Klaus Kinski

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

3 December 2020 David Cassidy

I’ve always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn’t working they were very supportive.

3 December 2020 Willie Stargell

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

3 December 2020 Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life.

3 December 2020 Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Andrew Dost

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that’s healthy when you’re learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

3 December 2020 Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

3 December 2020 Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

3 December 2020 Alice Foote MacDougall

I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

3 December 2020 Joel Coen

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there’s a shot from the bumper of a car and it’s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

3 December 2020 Stacy Keach

My strength as an actor is in the theater – I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I’m much better there than I am on screen.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

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