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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

3 December 2020 Cynthia Ozick

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

3 December 2020 Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

3 December 2020 Bryan Ferry

It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

3 December 2020 Matthew Rhys

I wasn’t one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

3 December 2020 Peter Shilton

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

3 December 2020 Gene Robinson

I’ve long been really intrigued with what is the… proper role of faith and religion in public life.

3 December 2020 Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art.

3 December 2020 Paul Theroux

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

3 December 2020 Sivananda

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

3 December 2020 Emma Roberts

I love vintage shopping, I think it’s really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.

3 December 2020 Meg White

That’s what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they’d have to get new candidates.

3 December 2020 Bono

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

3 December 2020 Philip Pullman

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they’d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

3 December 2020 Theophile Gautier

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

3 December 2020 Algernon H. Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men’s hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

3 December 2020 Taylor Swift

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

3 December 2020 Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

3 December 2020 Daniel Greenberg

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

3 December 2020 Graham Norton

I always say I’d rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

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