Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Bryant H. McGill

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Celine Dion

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Celine Dion

Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don't wait for me.

Cesar Chavez

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Cesar Chavez

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

William Wilberforce

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Meryl Streep

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Meryl Streep

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Meryl Streep

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

Meryl Streep

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Meryl Streep

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

E. B. White

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Wayne Dyer

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Bobby Keys

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

Action Bronson

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

Gabrielle Aplin

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Erica Jong

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How.

Aaliyah

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Aaliyah

Whatever will be, will be.

Bob Richards

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Jonathan Edwards

On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit.

Kurt Vonnegut

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.