Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Hayden Panettiere

I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

Harry Hay

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

Greta Garbo

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

Gretchen Rubin

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

Horace

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Herman Melville

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

Herman Melville

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Herman Melville

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Herman Melville

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Henry David Thoreau

Much is published, but little printed.

Henry David Thoreau

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

Henry David Thoreau

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Henry David Thoreau

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Henry David Thoreau

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession.

Henry David Thoreau

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

Henry David Thoreau

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

Esther Hicks

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

Ernest Hemingway

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ethel Merman

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

Fisher Stevens

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Flannery O'Connor

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.