Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Derek Sivers

Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

Alannah Myles

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Max Lucado

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Oscar Wilde

The best revenge is to live well.

Ralph Lauren

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Sue Grafton

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Jennifer Lawrence

You look how you look

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

James Russell Lowell

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Jimmy Ruff

Printing on newsprint is a lot different than printing at a photo lab. Newsprint absorbs a lot of ink, and each color is on a different plate and roller. So, if just one color plate is out of line, it can throw the whole photo out of register.

Jamie Lee Curtis

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

Mike May

We have a real opportunity in Colorado to take a great step in Colorado. You should not have to have your health be damaged in order to have a job in the state of Colorado.

Bruce Vilanch

You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.

Louis Freeh

We wish you Godspeed. I wish you had not given the make and model and color of your vehicle,

Claude Debussy

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Alexander Calder

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

E. L. Konigsburg

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Dalai Lama

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.