Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Andrew Mason

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

Dylan Moran

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Bill Burr

Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

Elton John

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Frances Bean Cobain

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Anna Chlumsky

Show business got really tainted for me.

Patti LaBelle

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Norm MacDonald

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

Tracy Morgan

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

Rebecca Ferguson

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.