Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Maya Angelou

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Maya Angelou

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Pat Metheny

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Paula Malcomson

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Miranda Kerr

Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

Nina Garcia

Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.

Mike Tyson

Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

Michael Schur

What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

Marianne Williamson

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Marianne Williamson

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Mary Kay Ash

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

Michelle Shocked

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Martin Freeman

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

Nick Offerman

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

Nick Offerman

Shut your damn mouth.

Nick Offerman

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

Nick Offerman

Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.

Nick Offerman

The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.

Nick Offerman

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

Nick Offerman

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

Nick Offerman

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Kathleen Wynne

Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.

Kathy Bates

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Jon Anderson

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

James Altucher

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

Henry David Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Malcolm Mclaren

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.