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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck

That’s the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

3 December 2020 Betty Ford

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

3 December 2020 Christian Bale

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

3 December 2020 John Ralston Saul

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

3 December 2020 Tom Hooper

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

3 December 2020 Rupert Sheldrake

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

3 December 2020 Casey Stengel

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?

3 December 2020 George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore

Whether you’re throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don’t trust women who don’t go to their girlfriends.

3 December 2020 Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

3 December 2020 Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

3 December 2020 Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

3 December 2020 Ethel Merman

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn’t think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped – and I haven’t had a cigarette since.

3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

3 December 2020 Sherrod Brown

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It’s time for a plan to bring our troops home.

3 December 2020 Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

3 December 2020 Dan Lipinski

People aren’t just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

3 December 2020 Amy Winehouse

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

3 December 2020 Graeme Le Saux

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim

It’s okay to be a fat man. It’s prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

3 December 2020 Rihanna

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workman.

3 December 2020 Gary Oldman

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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