Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alva Myrdal

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

Anne Sexton

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Anne Sexton

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

Anne Sexton

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Anne Sexton

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Rice

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Anne Rice

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Anna Freud

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Held

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Anna Deavere Smith

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Andrew Shue

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Solomon

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Andre Malraux

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Maurois

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Ambrose Bierce

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Ambrose Bierce

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Ambrose Bierce

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Alicia Keys

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Alice Walker

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Alice Walker

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.