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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Elton John

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

3 December 2020 Chanakya

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

3 December 2020 Robert Browning

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

3 December 2020 Bo Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

3 December 2020 Robert Griffin III

I’m a military kid, both parents in the military – Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

3 December 2020 Elvis Presley

Too much TV hurts movies.

3 December 2020 Ignatius Loyola

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

3 December 2020 James Thurber

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

3 December 2020 Gary Ryan Blair

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.

3 December 2020 Patti Stanger

I’m on the Sensa diet. It’s a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh’s clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you’re full through smellology.

3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor’s office and they did my X-ray and didn’t find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

3 December 2020 John Sandford

There’s something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple’s first meeting.

3 December 2020 Christina Rossetti

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

3 December 2020 Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music my rampart, and my only one.

3 December 2020 Richard Ford

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

3 December 2020 Israel Zangwill

Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

It’s a big deal for me to say I’m over politics.

3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson

The mere imparting of information is not education.

3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

3 December 2020 Black Elk

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it’s because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

3 December 2020 Bill Nighy

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

3 December 2020 Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

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