Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.

Jean Paul

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Dick Cheney

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Carl Sandburg

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Alexandra Adornetto

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Albert Einstein

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

Alexander Graham Bell

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Alexander Graham Bell

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Hamilton

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.