Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Carl Jung

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Rob Sheffield

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Richard M. Nixon

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard Russo

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Rob Sheffield

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

William Kunstler

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

William Faulkner

Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

Robin Williams

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

Robin Williams

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Robert Orben

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

Rod Stewart

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?