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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

3 December 2020 Steven Seagal

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

3 December 2020 Mae West

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

3 December 2020 William C. Bryant

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

3 December 2020 Chauncey Wright

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.

3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

3 December 2020 William Beveridge

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

3 December 2020 Edward Abbey

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left.

3 December 2020 Joan Rivers

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

3 December 2020 Warren Beatty

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

3 December 2020 Bob Woodward

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

3 December 2020 Lisa Edelstein

Well, I don’t think just because people are in a relationship that they’re happy. I don’t think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you’re not happy.

3 December 2020 Jacky Ickx

In the end I didn’t get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

3 December 2020 Todd Barry

I’m particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

3 December 2020 Ralph Ransom

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

3 December 2020 John Hawkes

Certainly I’ve had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

3 December 2020 John James Audubon

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.

3 December 2020 James Cameron

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

3 December 2020 Laurie Anderson

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

3 December 2020 Ally Sheedy

My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

3 December 2020 Judith Light

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

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