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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

3 December 2020 Dave Navarro

I’m as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

3 December 2020 Macklemore

‘Vote Love’ means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what’s right for humanity.

3 December 2020 Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.

3 December 2020 Adam Sandler

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Winters

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

3 December 2020 Joseph Barbara

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

3 December 2020 George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

3 December 2020 Arthur Godfrey

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I’m 46, I’ve worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Kramnik

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

3 December 2020 R. D. Laing

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

3 December 2020 Roald Dahl

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

3 December 2020 Anne Rice

I want to love all the children of God – Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist – everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

3 December 2020 Hunter Parrish

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

3 December 2020 John Podhoretz

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel’s existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

3 December 2020 Donny Osmond

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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