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.

Jesse Williams

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

Daniel Briere

It was tough. When something like that happens, you realize that hockey's a game, life is life, and that there are more important things in life than hockey.

Waris Ahluwalia

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

Jillian Bell

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Claire Tomalin

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Melora Hardin

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

Ariel Winter

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Jeff Mathis

I've been waiting all my life for this opportunity, and I'm pretty excited. I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself. I'm just going to do what I've done in the past.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Susan Jovanovic

The only way I could describe it -- the full effect -- is like having a death in the family. The entire family was ripped apart.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Bret McKenzie

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.