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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Epictetus

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

3 December 2020 Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

3 December 2020 Paul Tillich

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

3 December 2020 Karl Barth

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

3 December 2020 Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

3 December 2020 Jamie Zawinski

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

3 December 2020 Richard Dooling

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

3 December 2020 Alan Shepard

I’d like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

3 December 2020 Roger Andrew Taylor

It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

3 December 2020 Sarah Palin

Folks, this government isn’t too big to fail, it’s too big to succeed.

3 December 2020 Layne Staley

At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

3 December 2020 Cynthia Rowley

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

3 December 2020 Joe Rogan

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it’s important to show that even under all this strength there’s a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

3 December 2020 Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

3 December 2020 Connie Willis

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

3 December 2020 Brian Tracy

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

3 December 2020 Jay Ryan

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional – and that’s not me at all!

3 December 2020 Dee Snider

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

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