Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Daniel Handler

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Craig Kilborn

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

Craig Ferguson

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

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 Hepworth

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

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.

Stewart Baker

There are more safeguards in this transaction than in any past port deal.

XRF is just so much more powerful than anything that's been used in the past.

Charles Bukowski

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

Charles Bukowski

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

George Harrison

We've seen stories over the past week or two that said we would have a big announcement at E3, but we thought expectations were being set too high, ... So we thought we'd get the word out early.

Pete Carroll

We've seen in the past that he can make it through the week without a lot of preparation and still play. We'll protect him this week.

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.