Observant Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. — John Shelton Reed

Everything is killing him and yet his life just keeps on dragging; the morning comes and here he is, awake again. Alive. — Kate Tempest

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations. — Brian Wilson

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake. — Daniel Radcliffe

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income. — Andrea Jung

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life. — Sidney Hook

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. — Thomas A. Edison

DO ANYTHING! SOMETHING! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with every breath you take. — Matthew Quick

Why, they took nouns that were signs of things which gave evidence of wealth, - housekeepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds, and all such things; and each one formed her speech so as to bring them all in, in the prettiest accidental manner possible. — Elizabeth Gaskell

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. — Harper Lee

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not. — Li-Young Lee

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more. — Patrick O'Brian