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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Chuck Jones

The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

3 December 2020 Kathy Acker

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

3 December 2020 Bill Shankly

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel

On the stage you’re there, it’s live. There’s a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

3 December 2020 Will Arnett

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn’t ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

3 December 2020 Imogen Cunningham

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

3 December 2020 Michael Pollan

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

3 December 2020 Steven Cojocaru

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men’s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.

3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.

3 December 2020 Ridley Scott

And anyway, it’s only movies. to stop me I think they’ll ahve to shoot me in the head.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there’s no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

3 December 2020 Judy Blume

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

3 December 2020 Jodie Foster

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.

3 December 2020 Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

3 December 2020 Charles de Lint

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

3 December 2020 Jane Seymour

When I auditioned for ‘Wedding Crashers,’ the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got ‘Wedding Crashers’ partly because I was a Bond girl.

3 December 2020 Jeb Bush

I don’t wake up each morning saying, ‘Oh, wow, it’s me. I think I’m the cat’s meow. I’m the best.’

3 December 2020 Annie Leibovitz

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

3 December 2020 Anthony Foxx

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

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