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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

3 December 2020 Juvenal

For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

3 December 2020 Hugh Hefner

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

3 December 2020 Jack White

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

3 December 2020 Chris Evans

What if I couldn’t handle people’s opinions of me? I know that shouldn’t dictate a person’s degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

3 December 2020 William Blake

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

3 December 2020 Michael Hutchence

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I’ll admire it but I wouldn’t copy their style.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

3 December 2020 Jim Parsons

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.

3 December 2020 Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

3 December 2020 Tommy Chong

If I don’t get paid I’m going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

3 December 2020 Robert Evans

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I’m a flesh-eating virus.

3 December 2020 Pamela Anderson

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

3 December 2020 Florence Griffith Joyner

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

3 December 2020 Milan Kundera

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

3 December 2020 David Schwimmer

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don’t do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I’ll benefit from it.

3 December 2020 Ben Savage

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you’re dating or seeing have something special and it’s a more special occasion.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

3 December 2020 Donny Osmond

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point – even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

3 December 2020 Dolly Parton

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

3 December 2020 Gabriel Marcel

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

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