FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything ... (Baruch Spinoza)

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts ... (Josef Koudelka)

It's all right." "It's not. Nothing's right. I've never done a right thing in my life, it seems." "That makes a pair of us then." Her lips pressed against the ... (Tessa Dare)

The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. 'It shall be in the power of the College to examine or ... (Aldous Huxley)

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.' ... (Sabrina Carpenter)

After a long, dreamlike swell, the waves eased and calmed. I didn't know if the blindfold was removed; I couldn't have opened my eyes. I heard a soft murmur at ... (Juliette Miller)

Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body. ... (Bryant McGill)

This prayer is not mental, but of the heart. It is not a prayer of thought alone, because the mind of man is so limited, that while it is occupied ... (Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon)

Most people who die in fires don't burn to death; they die from smoke inhalation that kills the respiratory system. that's why the fire service is going on and on ... (Larry Brown)

You can't become a star just by watching one on TV. Dream big and go for your goals! ... (Koltn Burbank)

Photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner ... (Rosalind E. Krauss)

I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, ... (Woody Harrelson)

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen. ... (Charles R. Swindoll)

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to ... (Ian McKellen)

I think God cares about everything he created. ... (Russell Wilson)

If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as ... (Nel Noddings)

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. ... (Elizabeth Wurtzel)

Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the ... (Dave Stevens)

Yes! Yes. Thank you. I'm on my way right now, so I'll see you later, you know, like, in five minutes. And I'll just wait in the car - you ... (Shannon Hale)

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense ... (Brie Larson)

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves. ... (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers. ... (David Perlmutter)

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we ... (William Ralph Inge)

In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. ... (Steven Cuoco)

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what ... (Rihanna)

The men in California are so sophisticated. I love how they're not above using all the antiaging products or doing their best to stay fit. It's not like here, where ... (Colleen Coble)

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. ... (Immanuel Kant)

Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with ... (John Timbs)

My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)