Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ashthon Jones

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

Ashwin Sanghi

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

Baruch Spinoza

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Barbara Pym

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Sher

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Augustine Birrell

Is this true or only clever?

Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Auguste Rodin

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Augusten Burroughs

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Arthur Koestler

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Leaders are readers, so lead oneself to read!

Learn from others, as you would learn from your own mistakes.

Diane Lane

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Diane Lane

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

Dennis Quaid

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Dennis Quaid

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Dennis Prager

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Dennis Conner

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

Demosthenes

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Denholm Elliott

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Democritus

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.