Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ozzy Osbourne

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

P. G. Wodehouse

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

P. G. Wodehouse

I always advise people never to give advice.

Paul Newman

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Paul Duffy

The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

Matthew Fox

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Matthew Fox

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Matthew Fox

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Matt Groening

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.

Mary Wortley Montagu

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Mary Higgins Clark

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Mary Garden

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

Mary J. Blige

I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

Martha Grimes

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Marshawn Lynch

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

Martha Graham

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Martha Graham

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

Martha Graham

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Graham

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Martha Graham

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Martha Graham

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Beck

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Martha Beck

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

Martha Beck

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Martha Beck

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Martha Beck

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Martha Beck

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Marshall McLuhan

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Marshall McLuhan

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.