Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.

George Bernard Shaw

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Warren Buffett

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Robert Louis Stevenson

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Portia de Rossi

Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Bill Walton

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Andy Warhol

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

Mithun Chakraborty

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Joan Chen

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Craig Newmark

Getting out of the way is really important.

Daniel Pennac

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Dylan Moran

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

Abraham Verghese

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

Anish Kapoor

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Andy Goldsworthy

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.