Quote Queen

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Carlo Goldoni – 1707 – Playwright

“He who talks much cannot talk well.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir – 1841 – Artist

“An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master:  Nature.”

Margaret Deland – 1857 – Novelist

“A pint can’t hold a quart – if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”

John Burke – 1859 – Lawyer

“If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism.  If you steal from two, it’s research.”

John Foster Dulles – 1888 – Public Servant

“A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.”

Anthony Burgess – 1917 – Novelist and Poet

“Laugh and the world laughs with you.  Snore and you sleep alone.”

Larry Gelbart – 1928 – Writer

Larry Gelbart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Most jokes state a bitter truth.”

Steve Powers – 1934 – Journalist

“Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.”

Tony Lema – 1934 – Athlete

“In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.”

Bob Schieffer – 1937 – Journalist

“If you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.”

Herb Elliott – 1938 – Athlete

“The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.”

George Harrison – 1943 – Musician

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”

Martin Kippenberger – 1953 – Artist

“A good artist has less time than ideas.”

Ricky Gervais – 1961 – Writer

“Where there’s a will – there’s a relative.”

Carrot Top – 1967 – Comedian (Scott Thompson)

“It’s our nature:  Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”

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Vincent Voiture – 1597 = Poet

“Fortune is a great deceiver.  She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.”

Samuel Lover – 1797 – Artist

“Circumstances are the rules of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”

George William Curtis  – 1824 – Author

“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”

Winslow Homer – 1836 – Artist

“The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.”

Chester W. Nimitz – 1885 – Admiral in United States Navy

“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”

Mary Ellen Chase – 1887 – Educator

“Christmas, children, is not a date.  It is a state of mind.”

Zachary Scott – 1914 – Actor

“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”

Ralph Erskine – 1914 – Architect

“The job of buildings is to improve human relations:  architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”

Steven Hill – 1922 – Actor

“Every day I have a most embarrassing moment.”

Michael Harrington – 1928 – Writer

Chester W. Nimitz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Clothes make the poor invisible.  America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”

Philip Knight – 1938 – Businessman

“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”

Terry Semel – 1943 – Businessman

“There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.”

Jerry Nachman – 1946 – Journalist

“I didn’t miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.”

Edward James Olmos – 1947 – Actor

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”

Sid Meier – 1954 – Scientist

“Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.”

Steve Jobs – 1955 – Businessman

“Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Paula Zahn – 1956 – TV New Anchor

“I’m a mother, I’m a journalist, I’m an American; I’m all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.”

Michelle Shocked – 1962 – Musician

“I’m a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.”

Mitch Hedberg – 1968 – Comedian

“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”

English: Astronaut Marc Garneau, Canadian Space Agency mission specialist. He has flown on STS-41-G, STS-77, and STS-97. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Leopold Trepper – 1904 – Celebrity

“He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.”

Bernard Comwell – 1944 – Novelist

“Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.”

Marc Garneau – 1949 – Astronaut

“I like the opportunity to travel and work in close company with other people.”

Patricia Richardson – 1951 – Actress

“You have to be the parent; you can’t be their friend.”

Tom Bodett – 1955 – Author

“The difference between school and life?  In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test.  In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Barbara Januszkiewicz – 1955 – Artist

“Creative thinking inspires ideas.  Ideas inspire change.”

David Sylvian – 1958 – Musician

“I’m obsessed with books.”

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Bobby Bonilla – 1963 – Athlete

“It’s taken me a great deal to get here.  I don’t plan on missing anything.”

Michael Dell – 1965 – Businessman

“It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell.  There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.”

Engraved portrait of United States poet James Russell Lowell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Washington – 1732 – 1st President of the United States

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

James Russell Lowell – 1819 – Poet

“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

Josephine K. Henry – 1846 – Activist

“There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”

Robert Baden Powell – 1857 – Soldier

“A boy carries out suggestions more whole heartedly when he understands their aim.”

Jules Renard – 1864 – Dramatist

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Bill Klem – 1874 – Athlete

“An angry player can’t argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.”

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower – 1887 – Chess Master

“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”

Robin G. Collingwood – 1889 – Philosopher

“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay – 1892 – Poet

“Life must go on, I forgot just why.”

John Mills – 1908 – Actor

“I’ve never considered myself to be working for a living; I’ve enjoyed myself for a living instead.”

Henry Reed – 1914 – Writer

Edna St. Vincent Millay (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.”

Charles O. Finley – 1918 – Businessman

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”

Kenneth Williams – 1926 – Actor

“The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.”

Nelson Bunker Hunt – 1926 – Businessman

“People who know how much they’re worth aren’t usually worth that much.”

Edward Kennedy – 1932 – Politician

“Frankly, I don’t mind not being President.  I just mind that someone else is.”

Sparky Anderson – 1934 – Baseball Coach

“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”

Dan Millman – 1946 – Author

“There are no ordinary moments.”

Guy Finley – 1949 – Writer

“The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.”

Julius Irving – 1920 – Athlete

“I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.”

Amy Alcott – 1956 – Athlete

“Concentrate, play your game, and don’t be afraid to win.”

Stephen Robert Irwin – 1962 – “The Crocodile Hunter”

“Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.”

Vijay Singh – 1963 – Golfer

“I’m playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn’t say that.  I’m number two.”

Michael Chang – 1972 – Athlete

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.”

Drew Barrymore – 1975 – Actress

“It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”

English: Jeanne Calment the worlds oldest women at age 22. Italiano: Jeanne Calment la persona più longeva del mondo a 22 anni. Nederlands: Jeanne Calment De oudste vrouw ter wereld op 22 jarige leeftijd. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anne Grant – 1755 – Poet

“Grief is a process, not a state.”

Jeanne Calment – 1875 – Celebrity

“Always keep your smile.   That’s how I explain my long life.”

Harry Stack Sullivan – 1892 – Psychologist

“Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood.  You write each chapter as you go along.”

Anais Nin – 1902 – Author

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Fairfax Cone – 1903 – Businessman

“Advertising is what you do when you can’t go see somebody.  That’s all it is.”

W. H. Auden – 1907 – Poet (Wyston Hugh Auden)

“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”

Erma Bombeck – 1927 – Humorist (Erma Fiste)

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”

Hubert de Givenchy – 1927 – Designer

“Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.”

Nina Simone – 1933 – Singer and Pianist

“There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.”

Rue McClanahan – 1934 – Actress

Erma Bombeck (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”

Barbara Charline Jordan – 1936 – Congresswoman

“If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.”

Jilly Cooper – 1937 – Author

“I’m basically a very happy person and I don’t have to be anybody else.”

David Geffen – 1943 – Businessman

“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.”

Alan Rickman – 1946 – Actor

“All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”

Tricia Nixon – 1946 – Celebrity

“You can’t underestimate the power of fear.”

Tyne Daly – 1946 – Actress

“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.”

Jerry Harrison – 1949 – Musician

“I think being eclectic is bad when you’re just starting out.”

William Peterson – 1953 – Actor

“One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I’ll never give it up, is that it’s fifty percent the audience’s responsibility.”

Kelsey Grammer – 1955 – Actor

“Fame obviously has become a premium in everyone’s life.  Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people don’t enjoy it once they get it.”

Christopher Atkins – 1961 – Actor

“Everybody wants to be like everybody else.”

Chuck Palahniuk – 1961 – Novelist

“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”

William Baldwin – 1963 – Actor

“I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner.  I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.”

Billy Baldwin – 1963 – Designer

“Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.”

Justin Sane – 1973 – Musician

“We are simply human beings.  So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.”

Jennifer Love Hewitt – 1979 – Actress

“I don’t want to ever, ever do something in life that isn’t fun.  Ever.”

Corbin Bleu – 1989 – Actor

“I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.”

English: Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt with her daughter Gloria Vanderbilt (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joseph Jefferson – 1829 – Artist

“I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”

Edward H. Harriman – 1848 – Businessman

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”

Hesketh Pearson – 1887 – Actor

“When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.”

George Bernanos – 1888 – Author

“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”

Ansel Adams – 1902 – Photographer

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

Jackie Gleason – 1916 – Actor

“The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day you’re off it.”

Gloria Vanderbilt – 1924 – Designer

“I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.”

Robert Altman – 1925 – Director

“If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down.”

Ken Olsen – 1926 – Businessman

“The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”

Bob Richards – 1926 – Athlete

“Ingenuity plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.”

English: Cindy Crawford at The Fantastic Mr. Fox premiere in Leicester Square, London, England. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sidney Pointier – 1927 – Actor

“If I’m remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that’s plenty.”

Bobby Unser – 1934 – Race Car Driver

“Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.”

Jimmy Greaves – 1940 – Athlete

“We are really the victims of our own problems.”

Brenda Blethyn – 1946 – Actress

“I always think 12 times before saying anything.”

Jennifer O’Neill – 1948 – Actress

“Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.”

Anthony Davis – 1951 – Composer

“I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn’t want to fit.”

Edward Albert – 1951 – Actor

“Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.”

Charles Barkley – 1963 – Basketball Player

“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”

Cindy Crawford – 1966 – Model

“Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”

Lili Taylor – 1967 – Actress

“I do believe there’s good in all of us, even if it’s layered over so thickly.”

Andrew Shue – 1967 – Actor

“A good balance of winning and losing is important.  If you just win all the time, you won’t get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.”

Brian Littrell – 1975 – Musician

“I keep everything that is most important to me close to me:  my family, my bible, my X-box – just kidding.”

Rihanna – 1988 – Musician

“I never eat salads.  I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables.”

English: Nicolaus Copernicus ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Nikolaus Kopernicus, (født 19. februar 1473, død 24. mai 1543) europeisk astronom, matematiker og lege. Polski: Mikołaj Kopernik (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nicolaus Copernicus – 1473 – Astronomer

“At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.”

Charles Eastman – 1858 – Author

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.”

Bill Bowerman – 1911 – Coach

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”

Frank Tashlin – 1913 – Artist

“I got into a fight with Walk Disney:  I always pick the wrong people to fight with.”

Lee Marvin – 1924 – Actor

“I only make movies to finance my fishing.”

Smokey Robinson – 1940 – Musician

“You know what, life is full of temptations.”

Danielle Berry – 1949 – Celebrity

“No one ever said on their deathbed, ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.'”

Amy Tan – 1952 – Novelist

“It’s a luxury bring a writer, because all you ever think about is life.”

Amy Tan, author (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jeff Daniels – 1955 – Actor

“I never said, ‘I’m going to be a big star.’  I said, ‘I’m going to be a good actor.’  And that took the pressure off.”

Prince Andrew – 1960 – British Royalty

“People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours?  Your life must be very strange.  But of course I have not experienced any other life.  It’s not strange to me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton – 1963 – Writer

“I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby.  If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.”

Jonathan Lethem – 1964 – Writer

“I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction – by skipping the parts that bored me.”

Benicio Del Toro – 1967 – Actor

“To be honest with you, I’d rather not be working.  When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures.   I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.”