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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William F. Buckley, Jr.

I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

3 December 2020 Ian Botham

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

3 December 2020 St. Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.

3 December 2020 Bethenny Frankel

You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I’m one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I’m trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I’m doing now.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

3 December 2020 Little Richard

But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money.

3 December 2020 An Wang

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

3 December 2020 Beth Ditto

When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

3 December 2020 Scott McCloud

My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

I’m appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

3 December 2020 Bill Watterson

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

3 December 2020 Steve Cropper

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

3 December 2020 Donna Mills

I’m back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

3 December 2020 James Buchan

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

3 December 2020 Victoria Justice

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

3 December 2020 Kim Shaw

Everyone always asks me, ‘Do you want to be famous… ‘ I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

3 December 2020 Jules Feiffer

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

3 December 2020 James A. Garfield

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

3 December 2020 Kevin Richardson

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

3 December 2020 Bill Cosby

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.

3 December 2020 Gerrit Smith

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

3 December 2020 Margaret Spellings

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

3 December 2020 Gary Allan

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

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