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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Wayne Coyne

Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

3 December 2020 Jon Secada

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol’ Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

3 December 2020 Steven Bochco

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

3 December 2020 Adrian Smith

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

3 December 2020 Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

3 December 2020 Tom Felton

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

3 December 2020 Richard Hell

Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

3 December 2020 Heather Wilson

I support legal immigration. I don’t support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

3 December 2020 Rachel Griffiths

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

3 December 2020 Joan Rivers

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

3 December 2020 Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

3 December 2020 Mattie Stepanek

Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

3 December 2020 Ernestine Rose

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’

3 December 2020 Angela Merkel

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

3 December 2020 Brian Eno

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

3 December 2020 Alexander Payne

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed.

3 December 2020 Clifford D. Simak

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

3 December 2020 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I’m generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

3 December 2020 Lee Westwood

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

3 December 2020 William Allingham

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

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