Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bennett

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

Alan Alda

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Al Pacino

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

Chris Carter

He is a leader among leaders.

Audre Lorde

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Charles M. Schwab

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

To motivate man is to move a mountain!

Buddy Holly

I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.

Diana Nyad

You're never too old to chase your dream.

Denise Morrison

Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.

Charley Lau

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

Billy Idol

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Alexandra Adornetto

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Adrianne Palicki

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

Robert Kiyosaki

Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.

Concha Buika

I find inspiration in everything.

William Wilberforce

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Claude M. Bristol

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Dan Rather

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

Conan O'Brien

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Conan O'Brien

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

Bobby Keys

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

Robert Anderson

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

Ram Dass

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Ram Dass

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

William Shakespeare

Men should be what they seem.