Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Krakauer

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Jon Krakauer

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Jon English

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

Jon Bon Jovi

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Joichi Ito

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joko Beck

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

Johnny Weir

It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.

Johnny Carson

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Johnny Carson

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Cash

My arms are too short to box with God.

Lynn Johnston

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Luis Barragan

In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

Luis Barragan

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Ludwig van Beethoven

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Lucan

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Luc de Clapiers

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Louis Nizer

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Louis Pasteur

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Louis Pasteur

Science belongs to no one country.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Lord Chesterfield

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Lord Chesterfield

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Jim Valvano

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.