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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

I’ve never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn’t gone away.

3 December 2020 Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.

3 December 2020 Kathleen Turner

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don’t sell out to the new ones.

3 December 2020 Harvey Cox

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

3 December 2020 Henry Reed

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that ‘death panels’ would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it’s hard to beat Sarah Palin’s ignorant nattering on the subject.

3 December 2020 Harold H. Greene

You can’t just lecture the poor that they shouldn’t riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

3 December 2020 Nora Ephron

The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

3 December 2020 Gail Godwin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

3 December 2020 Evelyn Underhill

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

3 December 2020 Whitney Houston

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

3 December 2020 Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience – it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

3 December 2020 Marvin Olasky

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

3 December 2020 George Will

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

3 December 2020 Catharine Beecher

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read – those are important to me. It’s very important to me, and I don’t know what I would do without those things.

3 December 2020 Gloria Allred

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

3 December 2020 Paul Lynde

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!

3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio

What I’m trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

3 December 2020 Ray Floyd

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

3 December 2020 Sherman Alexie

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don’t realize it.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

3 December 2020 Paul Giamatti

I definitely had a top-notch education.

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