Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,

Elizabeth Taylor

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Elizabeth Janeway

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Elizabeth I

The past cannot be cured.

Eli Manning

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

Asghar Farhadi

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.

Apolo Ohno

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

Bayard Taylor

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The past can be tamed and controlled.

Barbara Corcoran

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

Barbara Corcoran

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Barbara Corcoran

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Avery Johnson

Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things (about them) are better than they were in the past. I don't think (coaching today's players) is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.

Ashley Judd

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

Ashley Greene

The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Benjamin Graham

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

Benjamin Graham

The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

Benjamin Graham

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.

Bruce Sterling

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Bruce Sterling

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Brian Ferneyhough

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Brian Greene

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

Brett Favre

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

Archilochus

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.