Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Atkins

If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

Warren Buffett

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Warren Buffett

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

Samuel L. Jackson

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

Samuel Goldwyn

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Salman Rushdie

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

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.

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.

Sallust

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Jon Voight

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

Jon Stewart

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

Julie Delpy

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

Judith Martin

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

Katherine Anne Porter

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

Winona Ryder

In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

William S. Burroughs

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Mason Cooley

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

Mason Cooley

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Mason Cooley

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Mason Cooley

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

Mason Cooley

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Deborah Grey

The challenge for him is going to be able to put a human face on that and if I have any advice it's to make sure that whoever does not make it into the cabinet is still a very valuable part of the team.

The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the course of the game.

The committee wants me to answer charges without facing my accusers, ... I am therefore, by advice of my counsel, forced to take the Fifth Amendment today until I can get a venue where I can face my accusers.

Natasha Richardson

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Neil Kinnock

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.