Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Gene Mauch

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gary Jennings

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

Gary Hamel

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Jessica Simpson

No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.

Jessica Simpson

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Jennifer Armintrout

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Seimone Augustus

I can't think of better inspiration. It's right there. You're looking at it this is what you work for. There's nothing else that needs to be said or heard.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.

Jean Paul

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Dick Cheney

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.