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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Collier

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

3 December 2020 Usain Bolt

I don’t know the history of my sport. I’m not like those people who know everything.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who’s really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

3 December 2020 Chuck Yeager

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

3 December 2020 Frances Rodman

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

3 December 2020 Leona Lewis

I feel like I’ve lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

3 December 2020 Esai Morales

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

3 December 2020 Zac Efron

I’ve been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

3 December 2020 Kevin Spacey

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

3 December 2020 Thomas Gray

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur

My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’

3 December 2020 Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

3 December 2020 Antonio Tabucchi

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

3 December 2020 Plautus

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

3 December 2020 Harvey Korman

They say it’s good but I didn’t know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I’m truly extraordinary.

3 December 2020 William Penn

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I’m a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

3 December 2020 Marjory Stoneman Douglas

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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