Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Meryl Streep

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

E. B. White

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Wayne Dyer

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Bernard Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Gabrielle Aplin

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Erica Jong

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Claude M. Bristol

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

Claudia Black

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Clarence Thomas

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

Clarence Thomas

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Cormac McCarthy

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

Cormac McCarthy

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Clementine Paddleford

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clement Mok

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Claude Monet

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Dante Alighieri

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dan Savage

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

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.

Dan Rather

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Gable

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Dan Gable

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Cyril Connolly

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Dan Millman

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie Ten Boom

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Corrie Ten Boom

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Corrie Ten Boom

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.