Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Luke Bryan

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Luke Bryan

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Ludacris

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Lucian

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

Luciano Pavarotti

I am a very superstitious person.

Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Lori Foster

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Lori Foster

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Lord Byron

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

M. John Harrison

Perception of a state is not the state.

M. John Harrison

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Magic Johnson

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Mahatma Gandhi

Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Gavin Rossdale

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Gabrielle Union

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?