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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

3 December 2020 Lafcadio Hearn

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

3 December 2020 Jeff Foxworthy

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

3 December 2020 Gottfried Leibniz

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

3 December 2020 Al Pacino

I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

3 December 2020 Simone Weil

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin

Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food.

3 December 2020 Paul Davies

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

3 December 2020 Debra Winger

When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm’s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

3 December 2020 Bette Davis

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

3 December 2020 Venus Williams

I love design.

3 December 2020 King Hussein I

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

3 December 2020 Charles Schumer

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

3 December 2020 Robert Duvall

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

3 December 2020 Gary Bauer

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation’s survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

3 December 2020 Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

3 December 2020 Golda Meir

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

3 December 2020 Vin Diesel

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

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