Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dorothea Benton Frank

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothy Allison

Life ain't the movies.

Doris Lessing

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Dale Chihuly

When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

Dale Carnegie

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

Dale Carnegie

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Dale Carnegie

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Dale Carnegie

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

Dale Carnegie

The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

Dale Carnegie

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

Criss Angel

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Constantin Brancusi

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

Constantin Brancusi

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Constantin Brancusi

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Stanislavski

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

Colin Powell

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.

Daniel Quinn

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Daniel Quinn

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

Daniel Radcliffe

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Damon Albarn

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Cynthia Kadohata

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

Cynthia Kadohata

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Clive Barker

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.