Quote Queen

Lionel Hampton (Photo credit: cliff1066™)

Dinah Maria Mulock – 1826 – Novelist

“An author departs, he does not die.”

Edward Walker – 1837 – Athlete

“By action and reaction do we become stronger or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states?  Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.”

Odilon Redon – 1840 – Artist

“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality … true art lies in a reality that is felt.”

W. H. Davies – 1871 – Poet

“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”

Robert Wilson Lynd – 1879 – Writer

“Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.”

Adolf Hitler – 1889 – German Dictator

“Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless ad useless.”

Joan Miro – 1893 – Artist

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Harold Lloyd – 1893 – Comedian

“On being asked how old he was:  I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.”

Stanley Marcus – 1905 – Businessman

English: Betty Cuthbert, c. 1950s, by Ted Hood. Note: Three Olympic gold medals, Melbourne, 1956 and one gold, Tokyo, 1964 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Consumers are statistics.  Customers are people.”

Lionel Hampton – 1908 – Jazz Musician and Bandleader

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”

Robert Byrne – 1928 – Celebrity

“Getting caught is the mother of invention.”

Antony Jay – 1930 – Writer

“Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.”

Betty Cuthbert – 1938 – Athlete

“The integral part of being a star is having the will to win.  All the champions have it.”

Peter S. Beagle – 1939 – Author

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.”

Ryan O’Neal – 1941 – Actor

“Adolescence is a period in a kid’s life when parents become difficult.”

Jessica Lange – 1949 – Actress

“Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.”

Don Mattingly – 1961 – Athlete

“Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character.  I really did, I mean I wasn’t born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.”

Stephen Colbert – 1964 – Comedian

“I can’t prove it, but I can say it.”

David Chalmers – 1966 – Philosopher

“People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.”

Allan Houston – 1971 – Athlete

“If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.”

Actress Ashley Judd, who has appeared in over twenty different movies, attended Sayre. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eliot Ness – 1903 – Organized Crime Fighter

“Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn’t seem to want.”

Keith Miller – 1927 – Author

“No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.”

Fred Brooks – 1931 – Scientist

“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule?  One day at a time.”

Frank Auerbach – 1931 – Artist

“Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly use.”

Jayne Mansfield – 1933 – Actress (Vera Jayne Palmer)

“If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”

Dudley Moore – 1935 – Actor

“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”

Stanley Fish – 1938 – Writer

Maria Sharapova hitting backhand, Fed Cup match vs Tsipora Obziler, National Tennis Center, Ramat HaSharon, Israel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things.  But they are not.”

Alan Price – 1942 – Musician

“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”

Tim Curry – 1946 – Actor

“Don’t dream it, be it.”

Alexis Arguello – 1952 – Athlete

“I’d say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.”

Ruby Wax – 1953 – Comedian

“Being a mother is hard, and it wasn’t a subject I ever studied.”

Mukesh Ambani – 1957 – Businessman

“I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow all the time.”

Sean Bean – 1959 – Actor

“My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.”

Al Unser, Jr. – 1962 – Race Car Driver

“Dad taught me everything I know.  Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”

Margaret Haddix – 1964 – Author

“I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I’m done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print.  It’s hard to be patient and wait.”

Dar Williams – 1967 – Musician

“Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.”

Ashley Judd – 1968 – Actress (Ashley Tyler Ciminella)

“I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.”

Luis Miguel – 1970 – Musician

“I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.”

James Franco – 1978 – Actor

“I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.”

Kate Hudson – 1979 – Actress

“Honesty will never break you.”

Hayden Christensen – 1981 – Actor

“One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they’re able to believe him in the role.”

Maria Sharapova – 1987 – Tennis Player

“I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.”

English: American writer Richard Harding Davis in 1890 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thomas Middleton – 1580 – Poet

“When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.”

George Henry Lewes – 1817 – Philosopher

“In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.”

Clarence Darrow – 1857 – Lawyer

“The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”

Richard Harding Davis – 1864 – Journalist

“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.”

Leopold Stokowski – 1882 – Conductor

“A painter paints his pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  We provide the music, and you provide the silence.”

Wynn Bullock – 1902 – Photographer

“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was.  I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.”

Nigel Kneale – 1922 – Writer

“All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you’re just playing about.”

Henry Hyde – 1924 – Politician

“There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.”

Samuel P. Huntington – 1927 – Sociologist

“Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.”

Michael D. Higgins – 1941 – Politician

“Every age, after all, must have its own asking and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.”

Mike Murdock – 1946 – Clergyman

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

Leopold Stokowski LOC 35520u (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

James Woods – 1947 – Actor

“No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they’re amazingly well informed.”

Eric Roberts – 1956 – Actor

“The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.”

Conan O’Brien – 1963 – Comedian

“A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men.  I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.'”

Christian Slater – 1968 – Actor

“Good judgment comes from experience.  Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgment.”

Haile Gebrselassie – 1973 – Athlete

“I will always listen to my coaches.  But first I listen to my body.  If what they tell me suits my body, great.  If my body doesn’t feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.”

English: John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan Jr. New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Ford – 1586 – Dramatist

“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”

J. P. Morgan – 1837 – Businessman (John Pierpont Morgan)

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything:  a good reason and the real reason.”

David Grayson – 1870 – Journalist

“A large volume of adventure may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”

Artur Schnabel – 1882 – Musician

“I don’t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists.  But the pauses between the notes – ah, there is where the artistry lies.”

Isak Dinesen – 1885 – Writer

“The cure for anything is salt water:  Sweat, tears or the sea.”

Thorton Wilder – 1897 – Writer

“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”

George Seaton – 1911- Playwright

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”

William Holden – 1918 – Actor

“Aging is an inevitable process.  I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger.  The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.”

Chavela Vargas – 1919 – Musician

“I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.”

Harry Reasoner – 1923 – Journalist

“If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.”

Lindsay Anderson – 1923 – Director

“Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.”

Cynthia Ozick – 1928 – Writer

“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”

Chris Barber – 1930 – Musician

“A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.”

Artur Schnabel, about 1906 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ferdinand Piech – 1937 – Designer

“If you fire people, you fire customers.”

Boomer Esiason – 1961 – Athlete (Norman Julius Esiason)

“There’s always something to talk about.”

Jennifer Garner – 1972 – Actress

“Beauty comes from a life well lived.  If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad.  What more do you need?”

Victoria Beckham – 1974 – Singer and Author

“I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.”

English: Sir Peter Ustinov in London. The photo was taken in his suite at the Berkeley hotel, over tea and a feast of jam scones and cream buns. Français : Sir Peter Ustinov à Londres. Photo prise dans sa suite au Berkeley hotel, pendant qu’il prenait le thé avec des scones au jambon et des pâtisseries à la crème. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anatole France – 1844 – Author

“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”

Wilbur Wright – 1867 – Inventor

“The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.”

Charlie Chaplin – 1889 — Actor

“All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”

Tristan Tzara – 1896 – Artist

“Thought is made in the mouth.”

Wendell Johnson – 1906 – Speech Pathologist

“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”

Spike Milligan – 1918 – Humorist (Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan)

“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”

Merce Cunningham – 1919 – Dancer and Choreographer

“My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.”

Sir Peter Ustinov – 1921 – Writer and Actor

“Comedy is a funny way of being serious.”

Pope Benedict XVI – 1927 (Joseph Ratzinger)

“I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.”

John Chamberlain – 1927 – Artist

Lew Alcindor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reaches over backwards to score (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.”

Edie Adams – 1927 – Musician

“All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.”

Dick Lane – 1928 – Athlete

“My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.”

Herbie Mann – 1930 – Musician

“I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.”

Kareem Abdul Jabbar – 1947 – Basketball Player

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.”

Peter Westbrook – 1952 – Athlete

“So much of our future lies in preserving our past.”

Ellen Barkin – 1955 – Actress

“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.”

David M. Brown – 1959 – Astronaut

“The views of the Earth are really beautiful.  If you’ve ever seen a space IMAX movie, that’s really what it looks like.  I wish I’d had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.”

Martin Lawrence – 1965 – Actor

“I don’t want to sound facetious, but humor is the key to the soul.  You know what I mean?”

English: Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Red chalk. 33 × 21 cm. Turin, Royal Library (inv.no. 15571). NOTE This image is in red chalk. Do not revert to the black and white image. Deutsch: Kopf eines bärtigen Mannes, sog. Selbstbildnis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Leonardo da Vinci – 1452 – Artist and Inventor

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

Henry James – 1843 – Writer and Critic

“Be not afraid of life.  Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

Bliss Carman – 1861 – Poet

“What are facts but compromises?  A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.”

Corrie Ten Boom – 1892 – Celebrity

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow.  It empties today of its strength.”

Bessie Smith – 1894 – Singer

“I ain’t good-lookin’, but I’m somebody’s angel child.”

Nikita Khrushchev – 1894 – Soviet Leader

“Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.”

Molly McGee – 1898 – Vaudevillian (Marian Driscoll)

“When a man bring his wife flowers for no reason, there’s a reason.”

Joe Davis – 1901 – Celebrity

“One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.”

Eden Ahbez – 1908 – Musician

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.”

Thomas Szasz – 1920 – Psychologist

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

John L. Phillips – 1951 – Astronaut

“It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut.  In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.”

Michael Cooper – 1956 – Athlete

US President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, 3 June 1961 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“This whole thing’s about development.  Not only are we trying to develop players, we’re trying to develop ourselves.”

Evelyn Ashford – 1957 – Athlete

“Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.”

Emma Thompson – 1959 – Actress

“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication.  Someone isn’t listening.”

Samantha Fox – 1966 – Model

“I’ve got ten pairs of trainers.  That’s one for every day of the week.”

Ed O’Brien – 1968 – Musician

“Everyone who’s serious about what they’re doing must be in constant forward motion.”

Emma Watson – 1990 – Actress

“I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times.  I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”

John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court justice. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anne Sullivan – 1866 – Educator

“A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent change of their lives.”

James Branch Cabell – 1879 – Novelist

“While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.”

Harold Stephen Black – 1898 – Inventor

“The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.”

Sir John Gielgud – 1904 – Actor and Director

“Before you can do something you must first be something.”

Robert Doisneau – 1912 – Photographer

“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.”

John Paul Stevens – 1920 – Judge

“It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.”

Loretta Lynn – 1935 – Singer

“I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.”

Julie Christie – 1941 – Actress

“Happiness is the absence of suffering.  I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it.”

Pete Rose – 1942 – Baseball Player

“It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”

Ritchie Blackmore – 1945 – Musician

“You have to give your whole life to a cello.  When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.”

Dave Allison – 1959 – Athlete

Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“It we remain humble and hungry, we can win.”

Brad Garrett – 1960 – Actor

“I think we love watching people that are flawed because we’re all flawed.”

Robert Carlyle – 1961 – Director

“The darker the character, the more interesting.”

Yukihiro Matsumoto – 1965 – Scientist

“You want to enjoy life, don’t you?  If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that’s good isn’t it?  That’s the purpose of life, partly.  Your life is better.”

Greg Maddux – 1966 – Athlete

“I don’t care if we’re out of it or not, if I’ve got a chance to pitch, I want to.”

Anthony Michael Hall – 1968 – Actor

“There have been many a season where I couldn’t get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can’t really do it.”

English: I took photo of Eudora Welty at National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. U.S. government collection, public domain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Roger de Rabutin – 1618 – Writer

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”

Thomas Jefferson – 1743 – 3rd President of the United States

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Bruno Rossi – 1905 – Scientist

“In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.”

Eudora Welty – 1909 – Author

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

Howard Keel – 1919 – Actor

“The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist.  Go out and beat yourself to death.”

Peabo Bryson – 1951 – Musician

“I think you create your own hipness.”

Amy Goodman – 1957 – Journalist

“I’ve learned in my years as journalist that when a politician says ‘That’s ridiculous’ you’re probably on the right track.”

Gary Kasparov – 1963 – Chess Player

“Chess is mental torture.”

English: Garry Kasparov 1980, Chess Olympiad in Valetta on Malta, photographer Gerhard Hund. Deutsch: Garry Kasparov 1980 bei der Schacholympiade in Valetta auf Malta, fotografiert von Gerhard Hund. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rick Schroder – 1970 – Actor

“I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.”

Henry Clay and his wife, the former Lucretia Hart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Henry Clay – 1777 – Senator

“If you want to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.”

John Billings – 1818 – Comedian

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

Claud Cockburn – 1904 – Journalist

“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”

Beverly Cleary – 1916 – Author

“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place?  And the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”

Charley Lau – 1933 – Athlete

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball.  Unfortunately, neither of them works.”

Serge Schmemann – 1945 – Journalist

“The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.”

Tom Clancey – 1947 – Author

“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.”

David Letterman – 1947 – Television Talk Show Host

“I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”

Major League Baseball player Charlie Lau in his official 1957 Detroit Tigers photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Scott Turow – 1949 – Novelist

“If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.”

Tama Janowitz – 1957 – Novelist

“With publicity comes humiliation.”

Amy Ray – 1964 – Musician

“When people say, ‘Nothing’s coming to me,’ they usually don’t like what’s coming to them.”

Vince Gill – 1957 – Country Music Singer and Songwriter

“Success is always temporary.  When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.”

Nicholas Brendon – 1971 – Actor

“I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.”

Shannen Doherty – 1971 – Actress

“Have you ever felt like a phone call that’s been disconnected?”

Photographic portrait of Charles Evans Hughes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Canning – 1770 – Statesman

“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”

Edward Everett – 1794 – Statesman

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

Charles Evans Hughes – 1862 – Judge

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”

Dean Acheson – 1893 – Statesman

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”

Masaru Ibuka – 1908 – Businessman

“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”

Leo Rosten – 1908 – Humorist

“The fellow who laughs last may last best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”

Norman McLaren – 1914 – Artist

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”

Theodore Isaac Ruben – 1923 – Psychologist

“The problem is not that there are problems.  The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Joel Grey – 1932 – Actor

“I love being in a show.  I love the community aspect of it.  I like the discipline of it, too.”

Thomas Harris – 1940 – Author

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

Ellen Goodman – 1948 – Columnist

Masaru Ibuka, the co-founder of Sony (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”

Dorothy Allison – 1949 – Writer

“Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.”

Ednita Nazario – 1950 – Musician

“I have to trust what I do and then do it.”

Andrew Wiles – 1953 – Mathematician

“However impenetrable it seems, if you don’t try it, then you can never do it.”

Joss Stone – 1987 – Singer (Joscelyn Eve Stoker)

“People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I’m experiencing now is for the first time.”