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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gary Oldman

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

3 December 2020 Jon Landau

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent ‘Basement Tapes’ will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson’s reasons for the destruction of the tapes for ‘Smile.’

3 December 2020 Justin Sane

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

3 December 2020 Ron Johnson

Design works if it’s authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can’t be a collection of input.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

3 December 2020 Richard Baker

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

3 December 2020 Ann Oakley

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

3 December 2020 Alfred Russel Wallace

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

3 December 2020 Stendhal

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

3 December 2020 John Cheever

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.

3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very much.

3 December 2020 Ruud van Nistelrooy

Because of that I don’t care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

3 December 2020 Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won.

3 December 2020 John Wooden

Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

3 December 2020 William Wallace

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

3 December 2020 Novalis

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

3 December 2020 Keith Richards

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

3 December 2020 Merton Miller

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn’t see any.

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