Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Tom DeLay

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Solange Knowles

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Sloane Crosley

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Rajneesh

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Soichiro Honda

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Mitch Albom

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Mitch Albom

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Neil Gaiman

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

John Muir

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

John Templeton

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Steinbeck

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Nicolas Chamfort

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Neil Gaiman

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Nat King Cole

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Character + Chance = Success

Maxine Hong Kingston

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

Maya Angelou

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...

Maya Angelou

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Maya Angelou

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maurice Ravel

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Marilynne Robinson

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Marilynne Robinson

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

Mary Stuart Masterson

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Patricia Hewitt

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Pablo Neruda

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Plato

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Mary Engelbreit

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

Philip Roth

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old