Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Bela Bartok

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

B. R. Ambedkar

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. F. Skinner

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

He's got some talent on the guitar, some talent on the piano and some talent all over. He's a real young, very inspiring and motivated musician.

Charles R. Swindoll

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Blaise Pascal

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Billie Jean King

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

Chris Evert

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

Ayelet Waldman

Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

Ayelet Waldman

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Ayelet Waldman

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Benjamin Britten

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Ben Elton

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Cesar Millan

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.

Cesar Chavez

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Carter Burwell

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

Alain de Botton

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

None of the propositions favored by the governor's administration are inspiring much passion,

Elizabeth Edwards

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Dionne Warwick

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

David Bowie

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Abraham Lincoln

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Aretha Franklin

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Ben Okri

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.