Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Rowland

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

Heinrich Heine

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Helena Rubinstein

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

Helene Cixous

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

Helena Bonham Carter

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

Helena Bonham Carter

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Haruki Murakami

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Harlan Coben

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Greg Behrendt

Don't idolize anyone if you can. You know, be inspired by people, certainly, but don't idolize people... Because they'll let you down.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

John Masefield

In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Mahoney

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

John Lydon

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

John Lennon

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

John Lennon

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

John Lennon

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

John Lasseter

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

John Lancaster Spalding

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.