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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

3 December 2020 Jim Morrison

I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

3 December 2020 Mike Tyson

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

3 December 2020 Ava Gardner

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

3 December 2020 Thomas Wolfe

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

3 December 2020 Jackie Mason

I don’t believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It’s funny because it’s ridiculous and it’s ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

3 December 2020 Noel Coward

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

3 December 2020 Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

3 December 2020 Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

3 December 2020 John Tenniel

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage

It’s a family that’s loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

3 December 2020 Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

3 December 2020 Allen Klein

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

3 December 2020 Theodore Sturgeon

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn’t hypnotize me.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.

3 December 2020 Corazon Aquino

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

3 December 2020 Bruce Dickinson

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it’s evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

3 December 2020 Susan Faludi

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

3 December 2020 Mary-Kate Olsen

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

3 December 2020 John Millington Synge

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

3 December 2020 Esperanza Spalding

I think there’s so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It’s not contextualized.

3 December 2020 Heidi Klum

I have the best husband in the world. He’s very involved.

3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

3 December 2020 Thayer David

With a recent birthday, I’ve been acting now for twenty years.

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