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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Anton Yelchin

Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

3 December 2020 Karen Thompson Walker

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it’s amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

3 December 2020 Earl Hines

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that’s when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

3 December 2020 Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

3 December 2020 e. e. cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

3 December 2020 Lucinda Franks

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

3 December 2020 Ricky Schroder

I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven’t done the cool movies that they like. With ’24,’ I gained a lot of respect. ’24’ is now, it’s hip, it’s their generation.

3 December 2020 Broderick Crawford

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

3 December 2020 Rachel Hunter

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

3 December 2020 Priscilla Presley

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

3 December 2020 Samuel Pepys

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

3 December 2020 Jake Owen

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

3 December 2020 John Astin

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That’s what an actor wants to do.

3 December 2020 Carre Otis

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it’s not normal, and hadn’t been normal for about 20 years.

3 December 2020 Kurt Vonnegut

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

3 December 2020 Mary Schmich

Here’s a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can’t anticipate how you’ll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

3 December 2020 Mos Def

I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

3 December 2020 John Masefield

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

3 December 2020 Bob Schieffer

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly

The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it’s rarely driving the car.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

3 December 2020 Brian Eno

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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