Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

Michel de Montaigne

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Mark Twain

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Paul Samuelson

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Paul Haggis

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

Sebastian Telfair

Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my body. I have to treat my body like a machine. What you put in it is what you'll get out of it.

Hopefully you get what you pay for, because you always pay for what you get.

Oliver Hudson

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Noel Coward

Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Nina Fedoroff

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Miguel de Cervantes

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Horace

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

James Geary

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

J. R. R. Tolkien

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.

Irene Rosenfeld

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

Gary Vaynerchuk

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

George C. Marshall

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

Henry David Thoreau

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

Fran Lebowitz

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

Jena Malone

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Jeannette Walls

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

Jeb Bush

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

George Saunders

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:

Jim Henson

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

Jim Harrison

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Jeff Kinney

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.