Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melanie Fiona

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Melanie Fiona

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Michael Servetus

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Theodore Roosevelt

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

Theodore Bikel

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Theodor Adorno

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Terry Pratchett

And never resist a perfect moment.

Margaret Sanger

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Margaret Fuller

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Marcus Buckingham

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Marcus Buckingham

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

Michael Fassbender

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Michelangelo

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Michelangelo

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

Michele Bachmann

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.

Michele Bachmann

A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

Michael Steger

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.

Michael Steger

A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

Michael Stipe

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

Michael Owen

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

Michael Douglas

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

Ray Bradbury

No person ever died that had a family.

Randy Pausch

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

Randy Pausch

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.

Eric Bogosian

From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.