Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Dianna Agron

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Charlie Hunnam

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Cecile Richards

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Carolyn Maloney

Where are the women? The women are here.

Chelsea Handler

I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' . . . You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Robert Fulghum

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Robert Kiyosaki

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

Robert Kiyosaki

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Robert Kiyosaki

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

Robert Kiyosaki

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,

Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Petrarch

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Lisa Kleypas

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

Chiang Kai-shek

We become what we do.

Casey Neistat

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

Amanda Hocking

Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

Abraham Lincoln

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

Felix Adler

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

Nas

How can you lose when you're doing you?

John Wooden

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

Jean Craighead George

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

John Cale

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.