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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Josephus Daniels

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

3 December 2020 Eliza Farnham

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

3 December 2020 Tommy Lasorda

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.

3 December 2020 Jack Ma

I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.

3 December 2020 Philip Levine

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership. Keep going until you know you’re doing work that’s worthy. And then see what happens. That’s my advice.

3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

3 December 2020 Heather Langenkamp

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

3 December 2020 Willie Nelson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

3 December 2020 Franz Liszt

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

3 December 2020 Warren E. Burger

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

3 December 2020 Grover Norquist

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

3 December 2020 Charles Morgan

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

3 December 2020 Rick Moranis

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn’t handle the travel. I’m a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn’t working for me. So I stopped.

3 December 2020 Bob Marley

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

3 December 2020 James D. Watson

We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man’s own will.

3 December 2020 Owen Feltham

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

3 December 2020 Jackson Browne

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that’s what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

3 December 2020 Graham Norton

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

3 December 2020 Demi Moore

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

3 December 2020 Neil Gaiman

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

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