Misquotations Quotes & Sayings

The idea of the U.S. as a corporation is more than a thought experiment. It's a way to reposition our approach to long-term problems. What would U.S.A. Inc. be worth? Who would want to buy its shares? — Mary Meeker

Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell? — Alexandra Ivy

Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind. — Louise Hay

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow's a mystery — Justin Timberlake

The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach. — James Keller

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world. — J.D. Salinger

Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. — Anthony Trollope

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get. — John Waters

Love is a battle with yourself. Be kind and love yourself before you love anyone else. — Karen Quan

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. — Hesketh Pearson

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. — Murray Walker

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon. — John Napier

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. — Dalia Mogahed

When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem