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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

3 December 2020 Lisa Leslie

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

3 December 2020 Michael Chang

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

3 December 2020 Lucien Bouchard

It’s the continuation of everyone’s childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they’re gone from this world. It’s terrible.

3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

3 December 2020 Horace Porter

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka

And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

3 December 2020 Margaret Cho

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

3 December 2020 Euripides

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

3 December 2020 Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

3 December 2020 William Gilmore Simms

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard

Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that’s the deal.

3 December 2020 Joel Silver

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

3 December 2020 Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

3 December 2020 Glenn Danzig

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person ’cause this is my attitude.

3 December 2020 Kevin Spacey

If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

3 December 2020 Billy Sunday

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

3 December 2020 Peter Arno

Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

Don’t fear change – embrace it.

3 December 2020 Mary Daly

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

3 December 2020 Darius Rucker

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I’m really looking forward to going.

3 December 2020 Albert Claude

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

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