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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

Men are only as great as they are kind.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

We’re all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We’re also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

3 December 2020 Marc Newson

So if I design it and then go away, it’s still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

3 December 2020 Richard Eyre

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

3 December 2020 Adam Ant

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality.

3 December 2020 William Weld

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

3 December 2020 Zach Galifianakis

My dad doesn’t get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn’t understand them. He’s just laughing because people around him are laughing.

3 December 2020 Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

3 December 2020 Debbie Allen

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say ‘this is where I want to be… I want this look.

3 December 2020 Eric Ries

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as ‘the X of Y’, so this is going to be ‘the Microsoft of food.’ And yet disruptive innovations usually don’t have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn’t.

3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz

In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

3 December 2020 Susan George

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

3 December 2020 Julia Child

Life itself is the proper binge.

3 December 2020 Bodhidharma

People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

3 December 2020 Isabelle Adjani

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

3 December 2020 Atifete Jahjaga

The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region… are making by giving a chance to women.

3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.

3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I’m doing amazing projects that, if I didn’t have time off, I wouldn’t be able to focus on.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

3 December 2020 James Laughlin

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they’re more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven’t the least idea of where poetry is going.

3 December 2020 Garth Ennis

There’s immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

3 December 2020 Diane Kruger

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.

3 December 2020 Paul Henderson

The Bible says not to worry so I don’t. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the day. If tomorrow shows up then I’ll take the same shot tomorrow.

3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy

People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

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