Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Czeslaw Milosz

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

Alexander Pope

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Alexa Chung

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.

Drew Barrymore

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.

Drew Barrymore

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

Douglas Wilson

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Dolly Parton

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

Deepak Chopra

Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.

Deborah Bull

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Deborah Bull

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

Anderson Cooper

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Amar'e Stoudemire

I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

Ann Patchett

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Anais Nin

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

Amanda Schull

It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.

Anita Roddick

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Andrew Weil

Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

Chuck Palahniuk

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Dale Archer

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

Dale Carnegie

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Dale Carnegie

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Cynthia Heimel

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

Amy Adams

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Alveda King

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

Alma Guillermoprieto

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Anne Sexton

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Ambrose Bierce

The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

Anthony Minghella

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

Anna Quindlen

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

Amy Tan

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Alexis de Tocqueville

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.