Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beverly Sills

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Betty White

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Beyonce Knowles

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

Beyonce Knowles

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

Beyonce Knowles

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Beyonce Knowles

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

Beyonce Knowles

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

Beyonce Knowles

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.

Beyonce Knowles

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

Beyonce Knowles

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Beyonce Knowles

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

Bernard Williams

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Bernard Williams

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Edith Schaeffer

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Eddie Murphy

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Earl Wilson

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Earl Warren

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

Earl Warren

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Eartha Kitt

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Dean Acheson

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Daymond John

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

David Twohy

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you want that to happen. It's not enough to just shoot the script. You've gotta come up with new inspiration, as you shoot it. There's gotta be room for that and time for that, so it grows.

David Viscott

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

David Viscott

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

David Duchovny

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

David Duchovny

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brainerd

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

David Brin

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.