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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Norman Lear

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand there’s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Mae

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn’t have time for university.

3 December 2020 Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Durante

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

3 December 2020 Jack Ma

I know nothing about technology.

3 December 2020 J. Courtney Sullivan

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

3 December 2020 Buddy Rice

When the car’s going well, I purr like a kitten.

3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

3 December 2020 Roger Goodell

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist’s office. I didn’t apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

3 December 2020 Kerry Healey

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

3 December 2020 James S. Coleman

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

3 December 2020 Lionel Hampton

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

3 December 2020 NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I’d like to go fairy tale all the way.

3 December 2020 Jerry Pournelle

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

3 December 2020 Julian Bond

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys’ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

3 December 2020 Bernard Meltzer

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

3 December 2020 Fran Drescher

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.

3 December 2020 Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

3 December 2020 Brooke Burke

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

3 December 2020 Lindsay Lohan

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good day!’.

3 December 2020 Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

3 December 2020 Marc Davis

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

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