Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

James Lane Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Beverly Cleary

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

David Eddings

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Nancy Friday

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Nancy Friday

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

W. S. Gilbert

We have enough confidence in him that we know we can win games with him. And he knows it too.

Carlos Helu

We have enormous confidence in Colombia, enormous confidence in its government and enormous confidence in Colombia's future.

Kari Rosenberg

We're going to be a better hitting team than passing team. Our setters are going to be good leaders for us. I've got more confidence in them as pure setters.

Matt Holliday

We're going out and playing relaxed. Getting some early momentum on the road is good for confidence, too. We're confident on the road.

Doug Sebach

We?re very confident right now. As we moved on from the first (state tournament) game, our confidence has improved greatly.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Billie Jean King

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Diane Ackerman

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Mitch Kapor

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dan Colen

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Ross Perot

We have to succeed, so we will.

Steve Miller

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible