Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Holliday

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

Maria Mitchell

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Ozwald Boateng

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Otis Blackwell

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now ...

Jimi Hendrix

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

John Dewey

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Joyce Meyer

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

Karl Shapiro

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

Joseph Conrad

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

Leonard Cohen

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Leo Tolstoy

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...

Gayle Forman

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Ludwig Feuerbach

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.

Lorenzo Snow

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Lorenzo Snow

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

John Legend

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Jimmy Dean

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Buffett

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Jim Rohn

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Ellen Hopkins

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Eknath Easwaran

I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

John Bunyan

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

Joan Armatrading

Yesterday I was playing Beethovens fifth, because I love that.

Louise Hay

Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

Rick Ross

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

Robin Hobb

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Robert Mugabe

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.