Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Honore de Balzac

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honore de Balzac

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Honore de Balzac

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Ida Tarbell

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Mara Wilson

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

James Joyce

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

Libba Bray

I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Luanne Rice

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

Eric Braeden

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Otis Smith

Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?

Linda Ronstadt

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

Caroline Sunshine

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

Sebastian Coe

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.

Jose Andres Puerta

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

Alex Winston

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

Jason Alexander

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

Dean Stockwell

I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

Melissa McCarthy

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.