Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Teachout

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

Isabel Allende

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Kevin Turner

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

e. e. cummings

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Alex Ferguson

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Amartya Sen

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

William S. Paley

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

Bo Schembechler

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Seth Rogen

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Thomas Paine

Science is the true theology.

Thomas Paine

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act...

Thomas Paine

The adulterous connection between church and state...

Thomas Paine

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Steve Jordan

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Thomas Hardy

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

Tim Burton

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Richard Steele

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Rajneesh

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Mariel Hemingway

There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected.

Matt Mullenweg

Simplicity not simplistic.

Marissa Mayer

I've always liked simplicity.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Elif Safak

A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

Eileen Caddy

Relax in my love and in turn pour forth that Divine Love out to the world.

Ben Harper

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Ben Jonson

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Deepak Chopra

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.