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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Leon Jouhaux

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

3 December 2020 Mike Myers

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

3 December 2020 William E. Simon

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

3 December 2020 Mario Batali

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

3 December 2020 Jami Gertz

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

3 December 2020 Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

It just seemed too weird to me. I don’t know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents’ apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

3 December 2020 Keira Knightley

It’s impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart

I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either.

3 December 2020 Max Beerbohm

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

3 December 2020 John Bolton

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting ‘look at this.’ It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

3 December 2020 Arthur Scargill

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

3 December 2020 Tom Peters

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

3 December 2020 Golda Meir

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

3 December 2020 Justin Long

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.

3 December 2020 Cynthia Nixon

We’ve all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she’s around another adult, she’s not paying attention anymore.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

3 December 2020 Phil Keoghan

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I’ve been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I’ve done a tremendous amount of travel.

3 December 2020 Ace Frehley

I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late.

3 December 2020 David Frost

Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.

3 December 2020 Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

3 December 2020 Donald Evans

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

3 December 2020 David Mitchell

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we’re now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

3 December 2020 Valentino Rossi

I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

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