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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Eric McCormack

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

3 December 2020 Curt Schilling

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.

3 December 2020 Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

3 December 2020 Alberto Korda

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

3 December 2020 Mario Diaz-Balart

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

3 December 2020 Mae West

Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.

3 December 2020 Sinclair Lewis

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

3 December 2020 Viktor E. Frankl

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

3 December 2020 Billie Jean King

Sports are a microcosm of society.

3 December 2020 Frank Zappa

Music is always a commentary on society.

3 December 2020 Jason Mraz

I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

3 December 2020 Allan Bloom

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

3 December 2020 Christine Baranski

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You’re trying to pack a lot in.

3 December 2020 Thom Mayne

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

3 December 2020 Richard Bach

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

3 December 2020 Robert Neelly Bellah

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

3 December 2020 Louis Armstrong

What we play is life.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

I’m an amateur science enthusiast. I’m not even a professional enthusiast. I don’t know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

3 December 2020 Zona Gale

I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

3 December 2020 Paul Lynde

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I’ll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I’ve never found an easy way.

3 December 2020 Lady Gaga

I just want to keep writing music.

3 December 2020 John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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