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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

3 December 2020 Edward de Bono

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

3 December 2020 Scott Walker

But I don’t want massive layoffs of anyone – public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

3 December 2020 John Keats

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

3 December 2020 Paul Theroux

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

3 December 2020 Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.

3 December 2020 George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

3 December 2020 Bill Griffith

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

3 December 2020 Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you’re selling, then you don’t know what you’re selling, and it’s probably not going to be a good experience.

3 December 2020 William Petersen

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn’t pass a test to save my life! I’m surprised that it didn’t take me until I was 20 to graduate. That’s why my role is so cool – Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

3 December 2020 Jack Nicholson

I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this it just doesn’t feel right at my age.

3 December 2020 Denzel Washington

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

3 December 2020 Tom Tancredo

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

3 December 2020 Fantasia Barrino

I feel like a good mom. I’m a strong woman now… Don’t look down on me. Pray for me because I’m trying.

3 December 2020 Tiger Woods

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family.

3 December 2020 Carrie Underwood

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.

3 December 2020 J. M. Barrie

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

3 December 2020 Jane Goodall

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

3 December 2020 Marina Warner

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

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