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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Suzanne Vega

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

3 December 2020 Julie Bowen

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

3 December 2020 Tom Landry

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

3 December 2020 Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

3 December 2020 Linda Evans

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

3 December 2020 Pete Rose

I’ve never looked forward to a birthday like I’m looking forward to my new daughter’s birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they’re wearing.

3 December 2020 E. W. Howe

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

3 December 2020 Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

3 December 2020 James Merrill

And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

3 December 2020 A. A. Milne

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

3 December 2020 David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

3 December 2020 Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

3 December 2020 Sitting Bull

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

3 December 2020 Holbrook Jackson

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.

3 December 2020 Patty Duke

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

3 December 2020 Omar Khayyam

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

3 December 2020 Ritchie Blackmore

The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.

3 December 2020 Nikola Tesla

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

3 December 2020 Frank Luntz

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

3 December 2020 David Geffen

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

3 December 2020 William Hurt

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

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