Cole Porter Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some of us come from families where we were not taught healthy emotional language and habits. We did not get a balanced perspective of the world and relationships, and some of us got a distorted view of where we stood in relation to the rest of the world. We felt (and many of us still do) less than. In order to make up for that, we learned to exaggerate and lie and blow our accomplishments way out of proportion in order to feel of some value. To succeed, we have to stop thinking we are less than other people. We tell ourselves we are not unworthy, inadequate, or unable to cope fully with life's problems. We begin to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. We have to get rid of feelings of inability before we can make progress. As we learn more about how false pride has held us back from our full potential, we remember, "If we change our thoughts, we can change ourselves. — Bill Pittman

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice? — Brendon Burchard

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song. — Rupert Holmes

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs! — Tim Gunn

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain. Neurologists have found that, when watching television or film, the viewer's eyes remain idle, straight ahead, but when reading, the actual physical movement of scanning the page from left to right (or right to left, or up and down, depending) stimulates and conditions the brain, a Stairmaster of the mind. — Lewis Buzbee

she felt as out of place as a meatball in a box of truffles. — Kristen Painter

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Creatures stalking each other over time grew a bond from mind to mind. — Suzy McKee Charnas

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. — Kevin Kline

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries. — Arthur Balfour

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. — Ayana Mathis

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. — William Sloane Coffin

Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it. — Daniel Woodrell

Could you even kill a dead girl? — Donna Augustine