Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Clark

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Kelly Clark

Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.

Margaret Thatcher

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Margaret Thatcher

Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

Margaret Thatcher

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Margaret Deland

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Paloma Faith

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Lilly Singh

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

LeRoy Neiman

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

Learned Hand

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.

Larry Page

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

L. Neil Smith

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

Paul Singer

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

Paul Stanley

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

Paul Ince

As long as we are successful on the pitch, then I will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex Ferguson is planning to step down just yet!

Oscar Wilde

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Oscar Wilde

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Isaiah Mustafa

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

Imre Lakatos

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Ilka Chase

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

Idris Elba

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone’s white. That’s what we have to change

Hyman Rickover

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Gloria Stuart

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

Gloria Swanson

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

Gloria Steinem

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

Nathan Fillion

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

Nancy Lopez

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs....

Mukesh Ambani

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

Ken Adam

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Keegan-Michael Key

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

Keith Carradine

My first feature film was a movie called A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done Hair in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.