Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Carl Jung

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Rob Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Reiner

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Richard Posner

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Richard Paul Evans

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard P. Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

Richard P. Feynman

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard P. Feynman

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Richard Hooker

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Richard Holloway

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Wilbur

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Richard Wilbur

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Richard Whately

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

Richard Avedon

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Baxter

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Renee Zellweger

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

Richard Bach

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Russell Hoban

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Russell Banks

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Russell Crowe

Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool."

Russell Baker

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.