Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Harrelson

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

Woodrow Wilson

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Woodrow Wilson

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Woodrow Wilson

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

William Wordsworth

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

William Shenstone

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

William Saroyan

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William James

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

Sarah Silverman

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Sara Blakely

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

Samuel Smiles

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

William Feather

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Saint Francis de Sales

Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.

Saint Francis de Sales

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Wole Soyinka

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

Wilson Greatbatch

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

William Wallace

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Zoe Wanamaker

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zachary Quinto

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Ze Frank

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Zainab Salbi

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Zayn Malik

I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.