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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

3 December 2020 Elias Canetti

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day’s insolence.

3 December 2020 Amelia Barr

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

3 December 2020 William Lyon Phelps

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

3 December 2020 Eminem

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

3 December 2020 Mike Weir

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

3 December 2020 Janet Napolitano

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

3 December 2020 Freddie Mercury

I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.

3 December 2020 Leland Stanford

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

3 December 2020 James Freeman Clarke

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

3 December 2020 Matt LeBlanc

It’s funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.

3 December 2020 James Allen

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

3 December 2020 Peter Tosh

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

3 December 2020 Adele

I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I’m very proud of that.

3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

3 December 2020 Norman Douglas

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good – be good for something.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

3 December 2020 David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

3 December 2020 Robert Wagner

I love Joan Collins. She’s a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She’s such a good actress.

3 December 2020 Warren E. Burger

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn’t occur when we’re on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

3 December 2020 Peter Agre

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

3 December 2020 Sun Myung Moon

I created the Women’s Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don’t need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

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