Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

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

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.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Truman Capote

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

Susan Wyderko

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Linda Lavin

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

Richard K. Morgan

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

Richelle Mead

Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

Ryan Kwanten

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Ruben Blades

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Tyler Perry

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Tyler Perry

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

Troy Glaus

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Eric Kripke

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

James Cook

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

Bruce Berman

It's important to keep a sense of perspective, but we can and should do better.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?