Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Donald Knuth

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

Dale Dauten

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Dale Earnhardt

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Dale Earnhardt

Second place is just the first place loser.

Dale Earnhardt

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Dale Carnegie

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Virat Kohli

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Woodrow Wilson

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

William Shatner

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

William J. Clinton

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

William J. Clinton

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.