Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

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.

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Cher

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Elijah Wood

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Edward Young

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Alain Ducasse

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Albert Einstein

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Jean Charest

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Jodi Picoult

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Harry Callahan

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

Jamie Redknapp

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

Charlize Theron

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charles M. Blow

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Cybill Shepherd

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Anthony Horowitz

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

Kim Gordon

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

Jennifer Saunders

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Paul Weller

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.