Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilson Greatbatch

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

William Wallace

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Zoe Wanamaker

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zachary Quinto

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Ze Frank

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Zainab Salbi

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Zayn Malik

I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.

Zig Ziglar

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Sara Paretsky

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

Samuel Rutherford

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Samuel Johnson

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

Samuel Johnson

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Samuel Johnson

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Warren Buffett

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Vladimir Horowitz

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Virginia Woolf

All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

William Blake

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Werner Erhard

The world is perfect the way it is.

Werner Herzog

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wayne White

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

Wayne White

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.