Powerfu Quotes & Sayings

The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand. — Dolph Schayes

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world. — Charlie Munger

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition - besides inherited aptitudes and qualities - which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerfu ...
See more — Albert Einstein

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness. — Andre Maurois

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly. — Richard Avedon

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem. — Katherine Jenkins

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves. — C.P. Snow

Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd. — Heidi Cullinan

Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside — Pascal Bruckner

Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films. — Mila Kunis

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. — Arthur Honegger

We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales. — Matthew Scully

That something smelled delicious!' I screamed. — David Foster Wallace