131 Gratitude Quotes & Sayings

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart. — Adam Duritz

Not learning by doing,
but learning by risking. — Toba Beta

Men are what their mothers made them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis. — P.G. Wodehouse

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? — Steven Wright

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. — Katharine Hepburn

Truth does not demand belief ... — Dan Barker

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone! — Rachel Bilson

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling - receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone. — Kim Edwards

The French are like a coin with a different face on either side of it (every coin has two faces), for every action there is an equally strong opposing idea that vibrates on the other end within them like the receiving side of a series of ripples in a pond. But this is all happening within themselves. The French are exactly like their own language: there are too many letters but then you're not supposed to pronounce them! — C. JoyBell C.

Mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true. — William Donaldson

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it. — Daniel Webster

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references. — John Cleese

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife ... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated. — Allan Savory

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. — Claire Danes