Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Orlean

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Leslie Fiedler

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Lee Kuan Yew

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

Suzanne Collins

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Sophie Kinsella

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Taylor Mali

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

Marcus Aurelius

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Thomas a Kempis

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

Thomas A. Edison

Youth doesn't take advice.

Rip Taylor

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

Tamora Pierce

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

Rumi

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Tony Campolo

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

Tom Waits

(When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

Simon Cowell

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Steven Weinberg

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Richard Adams

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

Sydney J. Harris

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Kathleen Winsor

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Ramakrishna

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Richard Branson

Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

Swami Vivekananda

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Tiesto

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

Ray Stevenson

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

Rob Halford

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

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.