Quote Queen

English: Charles M. Schwab, American steel magnate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Peabody – 1795 – Businessman

“Education:  A debt due from present to future generations.”

Charles M. Schwab – 1862 – Businessman

“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”

Wendell L. Wilkie – 1892 – Lawyer

“I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.”

Enzo Ferrari – 1898 – Designer

“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”

Helen Gurley Brown – 1922 – Magazine Editor

“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”

Toni Morrison – 1931 – Writer and Editor (Chloe Anthony Wofford)

“When people say they don’t have time to write with small children, well, for me it was the opposite.  I didn’t write anything before I had them.  They gave me that.”

Bobby Robson – 1933 – Athlete

“Practice makes permanent.”

George Kennedy – 1925 – Actor

English: Toni Morrison, Miami Book Fair International, 1986 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two-hour finished, polished product.  But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.”

Duane Michals – 1932 – Photographer

“Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘wouldn’t it be interesting if …’; And then do it.”

Yoko Ono – 1933 – Artist

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.  A dream you dream together is reality.”

Jean M. Auel – 1936 – Writer

“I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”

Cybill Shepherd – 1950 – Actress

“I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren’t true.”

Juice Newton – 1952 – Musician

“I can’t live off of yesterday – that’s in the past.”

John Travolta – 1954 – Actor

“So you know what I’m gonna do?  I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.”

Vanna White – 1957 – Celebrity

“When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.”

Rob Andrew – 1963 – Athlete

“There’s no such thing as lack of confidence.  You either have it or you don’t.”

Molly Ringwald – 1968 – Actress

“I don’t really believe in regret.  I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn’t want a different life.”

Sarah Brown – 1975 – Actress

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”

A contralto Marian Anderson em 1920. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher – 1879 – Author

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

H. L. Hunt – 1889 – Businessman (Haroldson Lafayette Hunt)

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it.  Establish your priorities and go to work.”

Marian Anderson – 1902 – Musician

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”

Red Barber – 1908 – Sportscaster (Walter Lanier Barber)

“When I’m talking to a large audience, I imagine that I’m talking to a single person.”

Andre Norton – 1912 – Writer

“Victory belongs to the most perservering.”

Hal Holbrook – 1925 – Actor

“I developed a resistance to authority.  Not to discipline – I learned that.  But to authority.  I like to think for myself.  And I like to cause trouble.”

Graham Hill – 1929 – Athlete

“I am an artist.  The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.”

Ruth Rendell – 1930 – Writer

Red Barber, sportscaster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“While most of the things you’ve worried about have never happened, it’s a different story with the things you haven’t worried about.  They are the ones that happen.”

Fay Godwin – 1931 – Photographer

“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.”

Jim Brown – 1936 – Athlete and Actor

“Tell you what you got to do to compete.  What you got to do to compete is compete.”

George Miller – 1950 – Comedian

“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.”

Michael Jordan – 1963 – Athlete

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

Denise Richards – 1972 – Actress

“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”

Paris Hilton – 1981- Socialite

“Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having a party, because then you don’t need to go out.”

Cropped screenshot of Edgar Bergen with Charley McCarthy from the film Stage Door Canteen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Henry Wilson – 1812 – Vice President of the United States

“I believe if we introduced the Lord’s Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.”

Edgar Bergen – 1903 – Actor

“You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.”

Otis Blackwell – 1932 – Musician

“When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano.  I got so far and then lost interest.  Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.”

Sonny Bono – 1935 – Musician and Politician

“People have said to me, You can’t write songs.  You can’t play an instrument.  But I’ve got 10 gold records.”

Carl Icahn – 1936 – Businessman

“You learn in this business:  If you want a friend, get a dog.”

John Corigliano – 1938 – Composer

“What I think of as style – and I’ve gotten to this over years of really thinking about it – is that style is the unconscious choices I make.”

Richard Ford – 1944 – Author

“Your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.”

English: US Congressional picture of Sonny Bono (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Roberta Williams – 1953 – Designer

“A good story never dies.”

Iain Banks – 1954 – Writer

“You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it – writing’s a double skill, really.”

Margaux Hemingway -1955 – Actress

“I am not a Hemingway aficionado.”

LeVar Burton – 1957 – Actor

“There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.”

Ice T – 1958 – Musician (Tracy Morrow)

“I’ve never been competitive with anybody but myself.”

John McEnroe – 1959 – Tennis Player

“This defeat has taught me a lesson, but I’m not sure what it is.”

Christopher Eccleston – 1964 – Actor

“Any horror element is an much psychological as special effects.”

Warren Ellis – 1968 – Author

“You’re miserable, edgy, and tired.  You’re in the perfect mood for journalism.”

Bo Bennett – 1972 – Businessman (Robert Bennett)

“A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.”

Amanda Holden – 1971 – Actress

“I never believed I would make it – and perhaps that’s why I always found work.  I’ve always stuck at everything I’ve ever done.  I absolutely won’t give up.”

Cathy Freeman – 1973 – Athlete

“You got to try to reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.”

Valentino Rossi – 1979 – Athlete

“I race to win.  If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.”

Susan B. Anthony spoke at every convention from 1852 onward, and served as president in 1858. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Susan B. Anthony – 1820 – Women’s Rights Leader

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

Alfred North Whitehead – 1861 – Mathematician

“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”

John Barrymore – 1882 – Actor

“I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.”

Cesar Romero – 1907 – Actor

“I’m satisfied to go in at the bottom – that’s the best way to learn what things are all about.”

Harvey Korman – 1927 – Actor

“Funny is when you’re serious.”

Claire Bloom – 1931 – Actress

“I had a burning ambition.  Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.”

Graham Kennedy – 1934 – Entertainer

“I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.”

Roger B. Chaffee – 1935 – Astronaut

“Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.”

Jane Seymour – 1951 – Actress

Jane Seymour (Photo credit: Alan Light)

“You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you.  And don’t be afraid to say no.”

Melissa Manchester – 1951 – Musician

“I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me.  I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.”

Matt Groening – 1954 – Cartoonist

“Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.”

Chris Farley – 1964 – Comedian

“In the land of skunks he who has half a nose is king.”

Alex Borstein – 1971 – Actress

“I got my degree in rhetoric.”

Brandon Boyd – 1976 – Musician

“Big Brother is watching … look busy.”

Frederick Douglass (Photo credit: elycefeliz)

Leon Battista Alberti – 1404 – Architect

“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”

Frederick Douglass – 1817 – Statesman

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

George Jean Nathan – 1882 – Editor

“A man admires a woman not for what she says, but for what she listens to.”

Jack Benny – 1894 – Comedian

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Jimmy Hoffa – 1913 – Activist

“I may have many faults, bit being wrong ain’t one of them.”

Jim Sullivan – 1941 – Musician

“I am a very lucky man.  I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.”

Carl Bernstein – 1944 – Journalist

“The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story.  So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.”

Gregory Hines – 1946 – Musician and Dancer

Entertainer Jack Benny, 1958 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.”

Simon Pegg – 1970 – Comedian

“There is a universality to comedy.”

Drew Bledsoe – 1972 – Athlete

“I kind of picked up the game at an early age.  The way that other kids would learn what a fork or spoon is.”

First Lady Beth Truman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sir Joseph Banks – 1743 – Botanist

“O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second.”

David Allan – 1744 – Artist

“It’s better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.”

Charles M. De Talleyrand – 1754 – French Statesman

“Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.”

Eleanor Farjeon – 1881 – Author

“The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.”

Bess Truman – 1885 – Wife of President Harry Truman

“Now about those ghosts.  I’m sure they’re here and I’m not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.”

Grant Wood – 1892 – Painter

“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

Patty Berg – 1918 – Golfer

“What does it take to be a champion?  Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.”

Chuck Yeager – 1923 – Aviator

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing.  You back up but you don’t give up.”

Judith Rodriguez – 1936 – Poet

“I write poetry in order to live more fully.”

Oliver Reed – 1938 – Actor

English: Brigadier General Chuck Yeager (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Awe and respect are two different things.”

Peter Tork – 1942 – Musician

“Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.”

Jerry Springer – 1944 – Talk Show Host

“Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.”

Mike Krzyzewski – 1947 – Coach

“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”

Peter Hook – 1956 – Bassist

“I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you’d be asking for your money back if you didn’t get it.”

Henry Rollins – 1961 – Musician

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

Kelly Hu – 1968 – Actress

“I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.”

Randy Moss – 1977 -Football Player

“I always forgive, but I never forget.”

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Abraham Lincoln – 1809 – 16th President of the United States

“Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be.”

Charles Darwin – 1809 – Naturalist

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

George Meredith – 1828 – Author

“Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.”

Omar Bradley – 1893 – General in United States Army (Omar Nelson Bradley)

“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

Joe Garagiola – 1926 – Baseball Player

“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”

Charles Van Doren – 1926 – TV Personality

“I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.”

Bill Russell – 1934 – Basketball Player

“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.”

Ray Kurzweil – 1948 – Inventor

“A successful person isn’t necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.”

Michael Ironside – 1950 – Actor

U.S. General of the Army Omar Bradley, 1st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.”

Bill Laswell – 1955 – Musician

“People are afraid of things they don’t understand.  They don’t know how to relate.  It threatens their security, the existence, their career, image.”

Arsenio Hall – 1956 – Actor

“I am consumed with the fear of failing.  Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.”

Josh Brolin – 1968 – Golfer

“I gotta make money – it all tends to disappear in this field.”

Ajay Naidu – 1972 – Actor

“It’s important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.”

Tara Strong – 1973 – Actress

“Don’t be afraid to look silly.”

Anna Benson – 1976 – Celebrity

“If you tell me I can’t have something then that just makes me want it more.”

Christina Ricci – 1980 – Actress

“The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.”

English: Actor Leslie Nielsen 1982 in a first class seat on United Airlines (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thomas Edison – 1847 – Inventor

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

Max Baer – 1909 – Boxer

“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”

Sidney Sheldon – 1917 – Author

“Don’t give up.  There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.  Don’t listen to them.  The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

Eva Gabor – 1921 – Actress

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

Leslie Nielsen – 1926 – Actor

“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re finished.”

Mary Quant – 1934 – Fashion Designer

“The fashionable woman wears clothes.  The clothes don’t wear her.”

Tina Louise – 1934 – Actress

“I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman’s body.”

Jennifer Aniston (Photo credit: Lord_Henry)

Burt Reynolds – 1936 – Actor

“I’ve always gotten along well with Texans.  You’ve got to.”

Sonny Landham – 1941 – Actor

“We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.”

Mary Docter – 1961 – Athlete

“I’m supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.”

Sheryl Crow – 1962 – Musician

“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there’s nothing I can do.”

Sarah Palin – 1964 – Governor of Alaska

“Buck up or stay in the truck.”

Jennifer Aniston – 1969 – Actress

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”

Mike Shinoda – 1977 – Musician

“We were waiting for a sound that never happened.  We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.”

Kelly Rowland – 1981 – Singer

“Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams.  We never let anyone blow our flames out.”

Taylor Lautner – 1992 – Actor

“The thing I love is that my home life hasn’t changed.  I still help out with the garbage.  I still help out with the lawn.”

English: portrait of Joyce Grenfell in her apartment in London, 1972 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Aaron Hill – 1685 – Writer

“Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.”

Boris Pasternak – 1890 – Author

“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.”

Jimmy Durante – 1893 – Comedian and Singer

“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”

Bill Tilden – 1893 – Tennis Player

“In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.”

Douglas Bader – 1910 – Pilot

“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that.  That’s nonsense.”

Joyce Grenfell – 1910 – Actress

“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.”

Robert Wagner – 1930 – Actor

“Anytime anybody impersonates you, it’s a great compliment.”

E. L. Konigsburg – 1930 – Author (Elaine Lobl Konigsburg)

“Some days you must learn a great deal.  But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything.  If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”

Roberta Flack – 06.07.2008 Jazz Fest Wien (Photo credit: Jazz Fest Wien Team)

Adrienne Clarkson – 1939 – Journalist

“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”

Barbara Kolb – 1939 – Composer

“Composing a piece of music is very feminine.  It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative and by comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.”

Roberta Flack – 1939 – Singer

“Remember:  Always walk in the light.  And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it.  Love the light.”

Dave Parnas – 1941 – Scientist

“Whenever anyone says, ‘theoretically,’ they really mean, ‘not really.'”

Mark Spitz – 1950 – Olympic Swimmer

“If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.”

Greg Norman – 1955 – Golfer

“Sometimes things work out on the golf course, and sometimes they don’t.  Life will go on.”

Cliff Burton – 1962 – Bassist

“You don’t burn out from going too fast.  You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.”

Glenn Beck – 1964 – Author and Journalist

“What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?”

Elizabeth Banks – 1974 – Actress

“I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.”

Amber Frey – 1975 – Celebrity

“In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.”

William Henry Harrison, first governor of the Indiana Territory and ninth President of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

William Henry Harrison – 1773 – 9th President of the United States

“I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

Amy Lowell – 1874 – Critic

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

Carmen Miranda – 1909 – Singer (Maria de Carmo Miranda da Cunha)

“More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug on someone that you love.”

Bill Veeck – 1914 – Athlete

“I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.”

Roger Mudd – 1928 – Journalist

“Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.”

Barry Mann – 1939 – Musician

“It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.”

Carole King – 1942 – Singer and Songwriter (Carol Klein)

“Do the things you believe in.  In the name of love.  And know that, you aren’t alone.  We all have doubts and fears.”

Carmen Miranda cor 22 (Photo credit: Luiz Fernando / Sonia Maria)

Alice Walker – 1944 – Author

“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.”

Mia Farrow – 1945 – Actress

“I get it now; I didn’t get it then.  That life is about losing and doing it as gracefully as possible … and enjoying everything in between.”

Judith Light – 1949 – Actress

“I found that body, mind, and spirit are all connected.  They are not separate pieces.”

Travis Tritt – 1963 – Musician

“If you’re gonna sing, sing loud.”

Ziyi Zhang – 1979 – Actress

“In China, we don’t consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what’s underneath the skin.”