Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan Thomas

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good....

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Doug Stanhope

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

Douglas Adams

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Douglas Adams

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Douglas Adams

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

Douglas Adams

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Douglas Adams

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Douglas Adams

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dorothea Benton Frank

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothy Allison

Life ain't the movies.

Doris Lessing

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Dale Chihuly

When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

Dale Carnegie

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Dale Carnegie

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

Dale Carnegie

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Dale Carnegie

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Dale Carnegie

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.