Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Leon Trotsky

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Leon Trotsky

Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

LeAnn Rimes

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

LeAnn Rimes

I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.

Learned Hand

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Laurence J. Peter

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Laurence J. Peter

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Laurence J. Peter

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Lefty Gomez

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

Lauren Oliver

And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

Larry Page

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

Larry Page

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Larry Page

Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

L. Frank Baum

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

L. Frank Baum

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

L. Frank Baum

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

P. J. O'Rourke

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

Pablo Picasso

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Pablo Picasso

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Pablo Picasso

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pablo Picasso

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Pablo Picasso

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Pablo Picasso

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Pablo Picasso

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Pablo Picasso

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.