Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Disney

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Walt Disney

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Walt Disney

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Walt Disney

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Walt Disney

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Walt Disney

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney

Happiness is a state of mind.

Virginia Satir

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Vincent Cassel

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Vita Sackville-West

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Vita Sackville-West

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

Walt Whitman

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

Walt Whitman

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Walt Whitman

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Walt Whitman

Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...

Walt Whitman

Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

Walt Whitman

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

These are the days that must happen to you.

Walt Whitman

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

Saul Bellow

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

Saul Alinsky

Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.