Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Mark Cuban

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Michael Schur

What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Jeanette Winterson

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Jeffery Deaver

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

Bill Crawford

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Baha'u'llah

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Brad Barkley

Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Joan Sutherland

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.