Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

Ahmad Griffin

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.

Scott Caan

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

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.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Cynthia Heimel

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Ann Landers

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Henry Ian Cusick

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Alberto Moravia

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.