Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Galen Rowell

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Galen Rowell

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

Galen Rowell

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

Galen Rowell

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

James Howard Kunstler

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Bob Gibson

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

Bill Terry

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

Barbara Cook

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Cornel West

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Brian Behlendorf

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Brian Lamb

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

Bob Edwards

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

Bob Edwards

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

Bobby Sherman

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

Al Hirt

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

Alex Chilton

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Alex Chilton

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

A. J. Foyt

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

Andy Williams

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Arthur Godfrey

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

Adrian Cronauer

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.