FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling ... (Michael Ritchie)

The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of ... (Michael Crichton)

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. ... (Sia Furler)

Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand ... (Gina Barreca)

The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from ... (Edwidge Danticat)

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and ... (Niklas Zennstrom)

Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat. ... (Ransom Riggs)

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. ... (Steve Maraboli)

What you must do," she continued, "you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your ... (Stephen Whitfield)

Before entering into any kind of intimate relationships, whether friendship, familial re-connection, or romance, the idea of "needing" or "being needed" must be eliminated. It's harmful to me and others. ... (Jennifer DeLucy)

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus. ... (Frederick Lenz)

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles. ... (Barbara W. Tuchman)

My brain caught up to my emotions. He meant for Colt and Caine to take me drag racing? Oh, hell to the no. ... (Eden Connor)

Grover Underwood of the satyrs!" Dionysus called. Grover came forward nervously. "Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided. "Honestly, I'm not going to blast you. For your bravery and sacrifice, ... (Rick Riordan)

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use. ... (Napoleon Hill)

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the ... (Agatha Christie)

There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's ... (Abhishek Bachchan)

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence ... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc. ... (Mona Kuhn)

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. ... (Ben Hecht)

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, ... (Faith Hill)

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give ... (Chan Khong)

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, ... (Douglas Adams)

I could hear the hiss of various gases escaping the engine and the tires still spinning outside, above, and there was the creak of metal settling as the car stopped ... (Andrew Davidson)

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'? ... (Christopher Hitchens)

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want. ... (Sundar Pichai)

I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in ... (Jennifer Egan)

Success is an outcome of conscious choices pursued consistently and tirelessly. ... (Vishwas Chavan)

Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went? ... (George Carlin)

A person who has lost his power of love has become blind to the beauties of life. ... (Debasish Mridha)