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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 David Byrne

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

3 December 2020 Ron Ben-Israel

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

3 December 2020 James Allen

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

3 December 2020 Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

3 December 2020 Erykah Badu

When you’re in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

3 December 2020 Justin Halpern

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

3 December 2020 Annette Funicello

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

3 December 2020 Teri Garr

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Nhat Hanh

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

3 December 2020 Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

True strength is delicate.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

3 December 2020 Confucius

The cautious seldom err.

3 December 2020 David Bromstad

‘Design Star’ was incredible, and I didn’t think it could get any better, and then ‘Color Splash’ happened.

3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter

Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

3 December 2020 Anne Sexton

Death’s in the good-bye.

3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

3 December 2020 O. Henry

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’

3 December 2020 Georg Brandes

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

3 December 2020 Olusegun Obasanjo

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

3 December 2020 Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

3 December 2020 George Byron

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.

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