Famous Quotes

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If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos — John Green
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the… — Tom Robbins
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. — Joyce Brothers
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who… — Stephen King
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. — Andy Warhol
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled… — Corrie Ten Boom
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would… — Megan Whalen Turner
I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley, — Jeff Kinney
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities — Stephen Covey
I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels… — Ally Carter
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world. — Jenny Downham
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,… — John Irving
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane. — Terry Pratchett
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. — Woodrow Wilson
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended… — Duke of Wellington
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. — Charles Dickens

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