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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jeffery Deaver

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you’re a professor, and one frankly doesn’t get a lot of girls as a poet.

3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba

It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

3 December 2020 Steve Albini

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don’t sign anything.

3 December 2020 Lauren Conrad

I’m into mellow dates with really good food.

3 December 2020 Ella Maillart

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

3 December 2020 Moshe Dayan

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

3 December 2020 Boomer Esiason

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

3 December 2020 Henri Bergson

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

3 December 2020 Stana Katic

Maybe I’m naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn’t stop once a couple gets together.

3 December 2020 Thomas a Kempis

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I’m going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

3 December 2020 Kyra Sedgwick

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

3 December 2020 Franka Potente

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I’m more in the second group.

3 December 2020 Alan Alda

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

3 December 2020 Jim Valvano

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.

3 December 2020 Lucy Powell

It’s become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it’s positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I’m really proud of the NHS.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

3 December 2020 Jackie Chan

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

3 December 2020 Ernest Thompson Seton

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was – almost daily meeting with famous men.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

3 December 2020 Warren Farrell

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

3 December 2020 Doug Larson

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

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