Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Lowe

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Richard Linklater

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Richard M. Nixon

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

Tucker Carlson

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Robin Tunney

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Treat Williams

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Warren Cuccurullo

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

Thomas Harris

It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

Vin Diesel

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Romain Grosjean

I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.

Steve Kerr

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

Mike Huckabee

Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo".

Puff Daddy

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the engine of success..

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Robert A. Heinlein

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

Steve Erickson

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

Steve Burns

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

Steven Morrissey

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

Lara Flynn Boyle

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Simon Schama

In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

Tinie Tempah

I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.

Richard O'Brien

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

Voltaire

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Walter Ulbricht

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Winifred Holtby

we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

William Saroyan

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Sarah Bernhardt

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Zebulon Pike

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.