Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

Charles Stross

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

Alan Watts

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

Alan Moore

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Alan Moore

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

Al Pacino

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Chris Carmack

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I've been working since I was five years old, and everyone in my life, outside of my family, would look at us and go, "You're crazy! Take your kid out of the business and put them in school because you're never gonna succeed."

Chloe Grace Moretz

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

Ai Weiwei

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

David Walliams

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

Bear Grylls

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

Audrey Hepburn

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

Denis Waitley

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Charles Dickens

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Bob Benson

The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

Edna Ferber

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

David Koechner

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Deepak Chopra

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Alphonsus Liguori

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Esther Hicks

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.