Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Bruce Sterling

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Billy Ocean

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Anthony Trollope

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Arthur Honegger

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

William Shakespeare

My wits begin to turn.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

Arundhati Roy

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

William Shakespeare

Like madness is the glory of life.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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.

E. B. White

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

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Marilyn Manson

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Nik Wallenda

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Dave Pelzer

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

David Guterson

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

Kim Edwards

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Sathya Baba

We should not aspire for acclaim and praise from those around us, but do service only to secure the Grace of God and not for any other reward from any one.

Charles M. Schwab

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

Howard Marks

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Oscar Peterson

very honored and proud that jazz has brought me to this acclaim by the Canadian people.

Stephen Rubin

Together, they have been responsible for a remarkable number of distinctive books that have won critical acclaim and been hugely popular, sustaining big sellers.

Ned Colletti

It would have been real easy for me to address the short-term issues and trade half the farm system. I could have. There was enough acclaim and enough interest out there that I could have filled other gaps out there by trading some of the young players. But I'm not short-sighted. I'm not impatient to the point that I'm going to do something that's going to tear apart the future, but I'm also not patient enough to sit back and get beat. This was probably as good a middle ground as I could find.