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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don’t think my mother had that opportunity to change.

3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

3 December 2020 Amanda Beard

I always tell people, I’m a better swimmer because I’m a mom and a better mom because I’m swimmer.

3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God’s wonders without using your hands?

3 December 2020 Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

3 December 2020 David Brin

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

3 December 2020 Eisaku Sato

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

3 December 2020 Mario Diaz-Balart

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don’t need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

3 December 2020 Rick Perry

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

3 December 2020 Conrad Hall

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.

3 December 2020 Milan Kundera

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

3 December 2020 e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

3 December 2020 Charles Peguy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

3 December 2020 Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

3 December 2020 Paul Scott

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it’s the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people’s hearts lie.

3 December 2020 Stephen Fry

I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.

3 December 2020 George Allen, Sr.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

3 December 2020 Frank Rich

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

3 December 2020 Mae West

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

3 December 2020 John Davidson

It wasn’t until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

3 December 2020 Emily Giffin

It’s a funny thing – when I’m crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges

To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA’s first NCAA title in track.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

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