Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

C. S. Lewis

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Agnes Macphail

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes de Mille

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes de Mille

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Agnes de Mille

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes Martin

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

Agnes Varda

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Agnes Repplier

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Agnes Repplier

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

Aaron Siskind

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Swartz

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Aaron Swartz

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

Aaron Sorkin

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Alan Sugar

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

Alan Shepard

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

Alan Lewis

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Alan K. Simpson

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Alan Ladd

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Alan Kay

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Charlotte Bronte

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

Charlotte Bronte

I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

Charlotte Bronte

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlie Haden

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Charlie Chaplin

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Charlie Chaplin

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Charlie Chaplin

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!