Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Aerin Lauder

You always have to stay true to yourself.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.