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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Arabella Weir

If one’s honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

3 December 2020 Max Jacob

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

3 December 2020 Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

3 December 2020 Kanye West

Nothing in life is promised except death.

3 December 2020 Ernst Mayr

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

3 December 2020 John Prescott

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn’t get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard

I grew up in the ’80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&ampB. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.

3 December 2020 Josh Hutcherson

I didn’t go to high school, so I don’t have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

3 December 2020 Steve Martin

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

3 December 2020 Liam Neeson

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

3 December 2020 Bonnie Wright

I’m really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it’s not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who’ve taken the time to go and study fashion.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

3 December 2020 Dennis Prager

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

3 December 2020 Robert Bolt

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

3 December 2020 Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

3 December 2020 Colin Hanks

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I’ve made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

3 December 2020 Samuel Pepys

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

3 December 2020 Colin Farrell

You’re scrutinized all through your life – you’re scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

3 December 2020 Adam Sandler

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‘Maria’ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

3 December 2020 Paula Deen

You don’t want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don’t want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

3 December 2020 Greg Kinnear

Let’s keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that’s my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.

3 December 2020 Johnny Carson

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

3 December 2020 Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

3 December 2020 St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

3 December 2020 Helen Reddy

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it.

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