Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Dan Millman

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie Ten Boom

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Corrie Ten Boom

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Corrie Ten Boom

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

Cornelia Funke

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Cornel West

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Cornel West

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

Cormac McCarthy

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Colum McCann

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Conan O'Brien

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Conan O'Brien

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

Conan O'Brien

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.

E. W. Howe

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

E. W. Howe

The only thing some people do is get older.

Dwyane Wade

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

Dwyane Wade

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

Courtney Love

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

We should take inspiration from learned-people and sages and put them into practice.

Bernard Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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.

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.