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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Polykarp Kusch

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

3 December 2020 Elena Kagan

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

3 December 2020 Tadao Ando

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

3 December 2020 Gustav Krupp

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

3 December 2020 Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

3 December 2020 Theophile Gautier

I was born to travel and write verse.

3 December 2020 Linda Hunt

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don’t come along every day.

3 December 2020 Mark Zuckerberg

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

3 December 2020 Ralph Marston

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

3 December 2020 Johan Huizinga

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

3 December 2020 Timothy Murphy

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

3 December 2020 Natalie Portman

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people’s lives without agreeing with what they’re doing.

3 December 2020 Emily Bronte

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

3 December 2020 Theodor Herzl

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

3 December 2020 Milan Kundera

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

3 December 2020 Mick Jagger

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.

3 December 2020 Chris O'Donnell

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

3 December 2020 James F. Byrnes

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

3 December 2020 Adrienne Rich

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

3 December 2020 Kerry Thornley

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it’s not art.

3 December 2020 Wilbur Smith

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It’s more important and it’ll last longer.

3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn

You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

3 December 2020 Natalie Portman

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?’

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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