Quote Queen

William Tecumseh Sherman (Photo credit: elycefeliz)

Robert Burton – 1577 – Writer

“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

George Dana Boardman – 1801 – Missionary

“Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”

Eliphas Levi – 1810 – Author

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”

John Ruskin – 1819 – Writer

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

William Tecumseh Sherman – 1820 – General

“War is cruelty.  There’s no use trying to reform it.  The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

Jules Verne – 1828 – Author

Lana Turner Modern Screen (Photo credit: RockyandNelson)

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”

Kate O’Flaherty Chopin – 1851 – Author

“There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.”

Martin Buber – 1878 – Philosopher

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

Lana Turner – 1921 – Actress (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner)

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.  A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

Jack Lemmon – 1925 – Actor

“Stay humble.  Always answer the phone – no matter who else is in the car.”

James Dean – 1931 – Actor

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, and live as if you’ll die today.”

John Williams – 1932 – Composer

“The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that’s wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.”

Ted Koppel – 1940 – Journalist

“The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.”

John Grisham – 1955 – Author

“If I wrote about honest lawyers, I wouldn’t be able to give the books away.”

Author Laura Ingalls Wilder used her experiences growing up near De Smet as the basis for four of her novels. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thomas More – 1478 – Author

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

Charles Dickens – 1812 – Author

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder – 1867 – Author

“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

Alfred Adler – 1870 – Psychotherapist

“We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.”

Godfrey Harold Hardy – 1877 – Mathematician

“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.  If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Eubie Blake – 1883 – Composer

“If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”

Sinclair Lewis – 1885 – Writer

“People will buy anything that’s one to a customer.”

An Wang – 1920 – Inventor

Eubie Blake (Photo credit: CUNY Academic Commons)

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”

Dan Quisenberry – 1950 – Athlete

“The future is much like the present, only longer.”

Garth Brooks – 1956 – Singer

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”

Emo Philips – 1956 – Comedian

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

Eddie Izzard – 1962 – Comedian

“Never put a sock in a toaster.”

Steve Nash – 1974 – Athlete

“I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world.  Think globally, act locally.  I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.”

Wes Borland – 1975 – Musician

“There may be something good in silence.  It’s a brand new thing.  You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down.  Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.”

Ashton Kutcher – 1978 – Actor

“I am only young once, who cares if I’m a goofball?”

Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Facsimile signature on image: “Yours truly “Babe” Ruth.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Aaron Burr – 1756 – Politician

“Never do today what you can do tomorrow.  Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”

Henry Irving – 1838 – Actor

“You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything.  You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times.  Only fancy what this suggests!”

Babe Ruth – 1895 – Baseball Player (George Herman Ruth)

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

Louis Nizer – 1902 – Lawyer

“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”

Ronald Reagan – 1911 – 40th President of the United States

“How can a President not be an actor?”

Mary Leakey – 1913 – Anthropologist and Archeologist

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor – 1917 – Actress (Sari Gabor)

“I call everyone ‘Darling’ because I can’t remember their names.”

Patrick Macnee – 1933 – Actor

“Television has some lovely aspects to it – and some ghastly aspects – but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.”

Rip Torn – 1931 – Actor (Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.)

“Never think you’re better than anyone else, but don’t let anyone treat you like you’re worse than they are.”

Mike Farrell – 1939 – Actor

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“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”

Tom Brokaw – 1940 – Journalist

“It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

Bob Marley – 1945 – Musician

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery – None but ourselves can free our minds.”

Robert Townsend – 1957 – Writer and Actor

“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.”

Kathy Najimy – 1957 – Actress

“When you’re not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.”

Megan Gallagher – 1960 – Actress

“There’s a big difference between sanity and insanity.”

English: Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of the Northfield Seminary, Mount Hermon School, and the Moody Bible Institute, circa 1900. Edited image from the Library of Congress (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Madame de Sevigne – 1626 – Writer

“I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.”

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney – 1746 – Statesman

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”

Dwight L. Moody – 1837 – Evangelist

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does.  Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.”

Rudolf Steiner – 1861 – Philosopher

“All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds.  Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.”

Bradley Chicho – 1895 – Poet

“Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.”

Adlai Stevenson – 1900 – Statesman

“A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular.”

Hans Bender – 1907 – Psychologist

“Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.”

Margaret Millar – 1915 – Writer

“Life is something that happens to you while you’re making other plans.”

Hank Aaron – 1934 – Baseball Player

“My motto was always to keep swinging.  Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

Roger Staubach – 1942 – Football Player

“Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere.  It’s a result of something … hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”

Nolan Bushnell – 1943 – Entrepreneur

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea.  It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”

Armstrong Williams – 1959 – Journalist

Christiano Ronaldo (Photo credit: Ludo29)

“Networking is an essential part of building wealth.”

Jennifer Jason Leigh – 1962 – Actress

“I’m a typical middle child.  I’m the mediator.  The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy.”

Laura Linney – 1964 – Actress

“Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.”

Christiano Ronaldo – 1985 – Athlete

“I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.”

Woody Hayes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Charles Lindbergh – 1902 – Aviator

“I owned the world that hour as I rode over it, free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.”

Byron Nelson – 1912- Golfer

“Every great player has learned the two Cs:  how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.”

Rosa Lee Parks – 1913 – Civil Rights Activist

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

Woody Hayes – 1913 – Football Coach

“Any time you give a man something he doesn’t earn, you cheapen him.”

Norman Wisdom – 1915 – Comedian

“I’m still constantly thinking of ideas.  I don’t feel 90.  I think I’m about 12.”

Ray Evans – 1915 – Musician

“A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.”

Betty Friedan – 1921 – Activist (Betty Naomi Goldstein)

“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

Jane Bryant Quinn – 1939 – Journalist

“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.”

Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dan Quayle – 1947 – Vice President of the United States

“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”

Alice Cooper – 1948 – Musician (Vincent Damom Furnier)

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.”

Jonathan Larson – 1960 – Composer

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”

Sergei Bubka – 1963 – Athlete

“I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.”

Rob Corddry – 1971 – Comedian

“I get all my comedy from CNN.”

Natalie Imbruglia – 1975 – Musician

“It’s good to have to put yourself in someone else’s skin.  It’s all-consuming.”

Gavin DeGraw – 1977 – Musician

“But I’ve never considered myself any kind of heartthrob.  It sounds painful.”

Carly Patterson Caldwell – 1988 – Olympic Gymnast

“I want to do it for myself.  It’s my goal and dream.  All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.”

Elizabeth Blackwell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Horace Greeley – 1811 – Editor

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

Elizabeth Blackwell – 1821 – First Woman Doctor

“If society will not admit of a woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.”

Walter Bagehot – 1826 – Economist

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

Frederick W. Robertson – 1840 – Clergyman

“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy:  hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”

Gertrude Stein – 1874 – Writer

“We are always the same age inside.”

Norman Rockwell – 1894 – Artist

“Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters.  We didn’t know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.”

James Michener – 1907 – Author

“I love writing.  I live the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

Simone Weil – 1909 – Philosopher

Ex-NFL QB Fran Tarkenton (Photo credit: bsteve76)

“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”

Shelley Berman – 1926 – Actor (Sheldon Leonard Berman)

“As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.”

Fran Tarkenton – 1940 – Football Player and TV Personality

“If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.”

Morgan Fairchild – 1950 – Actress (Patsy Ann McClenny)

“You can never be too rich or too thin.”

Portrait of Knute Nelson after his election to Senate, 1895 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hannah More – 1745 – Writer

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart … forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirit.”

Knute Nelson – 1843 – Politician

“I know that money speaks more loudly than need.”

Margot Asquith – 1864 – Author

“What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he never mentioned it.”

Ernest Shackleton – 1874 – Explorer

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

James Joyce – 1882 – Author

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”

Ayn Rand – 1905 – Novelist and Philosopher (Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum)

“To  achieve, you need thought … you have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.”

James Dickey – 1923 – Poet

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

Liz Smith – 1923 – Journalist

Christie Brinkley (Photo credit: nick step)

“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

Stan Getz – 1927 – Musician

“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.”

Judith Viorst – 1932 – Author

“Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?”

Jane Wagner – 1935 – Comedianne

“All my life I wanted to be somebody.  Now I see that I should have been more specific.”

Tom Smothers – 1937 – Comedian

“When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s hard to know when you’re finished.”

Brian Lumley – 1937 – Writer

“A literary critic is someone who can’t write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could.”

Gordon Gee – 1944 – Educator

“When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.”

Brent Spiner – 1949 – Actor

“Acting is acting.”

Christie Brinkley – 1954 – Model

“I just found out that I’m one inch taller than I thought!”

Clark Gable (Photo credit: joanna tidball)

Richard Whately – 1787 – Rhetorician

“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.”

Clark Gable – 1901 – Actor

“I’m just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

Langston Hughes – 1902 – Poet

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

S. J. Perelman – 1904 – Humorist

“The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel … You are what you are.”

Boris Yeltsin – 1931 – Russian Political Leader

“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can.”

Don Everly – 1937 – Musician

“Old men need applause too.”

Jessica Savitch – 1947 – Journalist

Boris Yeltsin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.”

Sherilyn Fenn – 1965 – Actress

“At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.”

Brandon Lee – 1965 – Actor

“For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside.  It’s not just a physical discipline.”

Meg Cabot – 1967 – Author

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

Lisa Marie Presley – 1968 – Musician

“Being Elvis Presley’s daughter is a whole lot of pressure.  It’s been a constant burden in my life.”

Pauly Shore – 1968 – Comedian

“Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.”