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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Sirhan Sirhan

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

3 December 2020 Kathy Griffin

It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She’s my lady-in-waiting as well.

3 December 2020 Dick Van Dyke

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we’ll likely not see another like him.

3 December 2020 Daniel Webster

The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

3 December 2020 Rebecca Harding Davis

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

3 December 2020 Ann Veneman

We’ve had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

3 December 2020 Flip Wilson

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

3 December 2020 Bill Skarsgard

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It’s a tough age, period.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

3 December 2020 David Korten

Money is a mechanism for control.

3 December 2020 Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Morrison

Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don’t need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

3 December 2020 Gary Oldman

What other people think of me is none of my business.

3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson

It is easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing, that’s the Lord’s test.

3 December 2020 Will McDonough

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

3 December 2020 Jane Austen

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

I’m not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

3 December 2020 Dionne Warwick

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

3 December 2020 Amy Winehouse

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

3 December 2020 Mark Ruffalo

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing… this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives – relationships and family. To me, it’s always an interesting area to mine. I’m drawn to it.

3 December 2020 John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

3 December 2020 Santigold

I’ve just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes… every creative opportunity there is with my music I’ve taken.

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