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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Laurie Anderson

I think women are excellent social critics.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

3 December 2020 Amelia Earhart

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

3 December 2020 Dame Edith Evans

I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere. You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage.

3 December 2020 Neil Peart

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

3 December 2020 William J. Clinton

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.

3 December 2020 Erik Qualman

You’re talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

3 December 2020 Josh Lucas

It’s funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

3 December 2020 George B. McClellan

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

3 December 2020 Steven Adler

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording ‘Appetite For Destruction,’ we all knew.

3 December 2020 William Blake

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

3 December 2020 Andy Rooney

I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

3 December 2020 Betty Hill

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

3 December 2020 Michael Pollan

In corn, I think I’ve found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald’s meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

3 December 2020 Lee DeWyze

Food in Chicago is the best.

3 December 2020 James Hilton

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

3 December 2020 Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

3 December 2020 Jackie Cooper

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o’clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o’clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

3 December 2020 Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

3 December 2020 Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

3 December 2020 Christian Lacroix

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the ’50s and ’60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

3 December 2020 Billy Zane

I trust my instincts.

3 December 2020 Ayelet Waldman

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

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