Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Ben Okri

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Augustine Birrell

Is this true or only clever?

Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jenny Lewis

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

James Taylor

I've always worked all my life and now I need a hand, not a handout. That's why I'm here.

Suki Waterhouse

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

Rashid Johnson

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Philippe Petit

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Warren Spector

I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

Robin Marantz Henig

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.