Optimism By Famous People Quotes & Sayings

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice. — John Waters

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought. — Alan AtKisson

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever! — Watchman Nee

What I hope you'll remember, Grace-is that all your life there will be people who have more than you-and people who have less. Grace hung her head. What's really important,'Miss Louise went on to say,'are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter. Those are the things that will always matter the most. — Priscilla Cummings

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore. — Jason Wu

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife. — Roger Stone

Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation. — Fran Lebowitz

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. — Julie Andrews

A real man's weapon is his mind. — Rick Riordan

You can't fathom the alien mind. — Adam Christopher

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. — Albert Claude

In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy - to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It — Anthony Esolen

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering. — Al Sharpton