Skip to content
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Martin Amis

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it’s not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I’ve met, and think they’re incredibly witty, inventive – there’s a lot of poetry there.

3 December 2020 Mike McCready

There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

3 December 2020 James Broughton

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

3 December 2020 Nora Ephron

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

3 December 2020 Phil Jackson

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

3 December 2020 Steven Brust

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool.

3 December 2020 Henri Matisse

Creativity takes courage.

3 December 2020 Bill Owens

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

3 December 2020 Christopher Marlowe

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

3 December 2020 Zach Braff

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

3 December 2020 Cory Monteith

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it’s not the end of the world. It’s cool, it’s fun, it’s exciting.

3 December 2020 Norman Borlaug

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

3 December 2020 Joshua Lederberg

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

3 December 2020 Paul Lynde

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn’t even own a belt.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

3 December 2020 Nancy Sinatra

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn’t have a chance to be with him very often.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

3 December 2020 John Hughes

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

3 December 2020 Albert Ellis

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

3 December 2020 Alfred Russel Wallace

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

3 December 2020 Ivan Turgenev

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

3 December 2020 Steve Lacy

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

3 December 2020 Brooke Shields

I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

3 December 2020 Jessica Savitch

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

3 December 2020 Norah Jones

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

3 December 2020 Gil Scott-Heron

Everything that’s bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that’s the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

3 December 2020 John F. Kerry

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

3 December 2020 Karl Kraus

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 1,598 1,599 1,600 1,601 1,602 … 1,862 Next Posts»

Tags

age alone amazing art beauty best business change dad death education experience faith fear food freedom funny future god happiness health history home hope knowledge learning marriage mom money morning movies Music Nature Peace Poetry Politics relationship Religion Respect Science Society Success Truth War Women

Recommend Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Albert Einstein
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Plato
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Mark Twain
  • Aristotle
  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Voltaire
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • William Shakespeare
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sophocles
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Alexander Pope
  • Confucius
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Martin Luther
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ovid
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Euripides
  • John Lennon
  • Socrates
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Mother Teresa
  • Baruch Spinoza