Quote Queen

English: Saul Bellow (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Frederick Albert Cook – 1865 – Explorer

“We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.”

Hattie McDaniel – 1895 – Actress

“I did my best, and God did the rest.”

Saul Bellow – 1914 – Novelist

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

Prince Philip – 1921 – British Royalty

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”

Judy Garland – 1922 – Actress

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Maurice Sendak – 1928 – Artist

“Childhood is a tricky business.  Usually, something goes wrong.”

E. O. Wilson – 1929 – Scientist

“You are capable of more than you know.  Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.  Aim high.  Behave honorably.  Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.  Persist!  The world needs all you can give.”

F. Lee Bailey – 1933 – Lawyer

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today?  It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”

Actress Hattie McDaniel, 1941 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jeff Greenfield – 1943 – Journalist

“I got into television because I hated it so.  I thought, there’s some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.”

Eliot Spitzer – 1959 – Lawyer

“I don’t care about motivation.  I care about creditability.”

Gina Gershon – 1962 – Actress

“In any profession, there’s a sleazy side and an honorable side.”

Elisabeth Shue – 1963 – Actress

“Every experience makes you grow.”

Jimmy Chamberlin – 1964 – Musician

“If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.”

Joey Santiago – 1965 – Musician

“It’s always nice to end your sentence with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.”

Elizabeth Hurley – 1965 – Actress

“Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others.  Mind you, it’s only mental sloth I object to.  Physical sloth can be heavenly.”

Shane West – 1978 – Actor

“Sexy, to me, doesn’t have anything to do with beautiful.”

Tara Lipinski – 1982 – Athlete

“The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.”

Kate Upton – 1992 – Model

“I hate exercising self-control.”

Frederick Albert Cook – 1865 – Explorer

“We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.”

Hattie McDaniel – 1895 – Actress

“I did my best, and God did the rest.”

Saul Bellow – 1914 – Novelist

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

Prince Philip – 1921 – British Royalty

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”

Judy Garland – 1933 – Actress

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Maurice Sendak – 1928 – Artist

“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.”

E. O. Wilson – 1929 – Scientist

“You are capable of more than you know.  Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.  Aim high.  Behave honorably.  Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.  Persist!  The world needs all you can give.”

F. Lee Bailey – 1933 – Lawyer

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today?  It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”

Jeff Greenfield – 1943 – Journalist

“I got into television because I hated it so.  I thought, there’s some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.”

Eliot Spitzer – 1959 – Lawyer

“I don’t care about motivation.  I care about credibility.”

Gina Gershon – 1962 – Actress

“In any profession, there’s a sleazy side and an honorable side.”

Elisabeth Shue – 1963 – Actress

“Every experience makes you grow.”

Jimmy Chamberlin – 1964 – Musician

“If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.”

Joey Santiago – 1965 – Musician

“It’s always nice to end your sentence with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.”

Elizabeth Hurley – 1965 – Actress

“Nothing irrates me more than chronic laziness in others.  Mind you, it’s only mental sloth I object to.  Physical sloth can be heavenly.”

Shane West – 1978 – Actor

“Sexy, to me, doesn’t have anything to do with beautiful.”

Tara Lipinski – 1982 – Athlete

“The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.”

Kate Upton – 1992 – Model

“I hate exercising self-control.”

Fred Waring (Photo credit: pennstatenews)

J.H. Payne – 1791 – Actor and Poet

“Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”

Bertha von Suttner – 1843 – Novelist

“Seek not good from without:  seek it within yourself, or you will never find it.”

Weedon Grossmith – 1852 – Writer

“What’s the good of a home, if you are never in it?”

Cole Porter – 1893 – Composer

“It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-lovely.”

Fred Waring – 1900 – Musician

“Be on your toes tonight – or I’ll be on yours tomorrow.”

Kenneth L. Pike – 1912 Sociologist

“There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.”

Jackie Mason – 1931 – Comedian

“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.”

Patricia Cornwell – 1956 – Writer

“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”

Michael J. Fox – 1961 – Actor

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

English: Johnny Depp at a ceremony for Penélope Cruz to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Johnny Depp – 1963 – Actor

“There are four questions of value in life…What is sacred?  Or what is the spirit made?  What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for.  The answer to each is the same.  Only love.”

Gloria Reuben – 1964 – Actress

“A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.”

Natalie Portman – 1981 – Actress

“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

Mae Whitman – 1988 – Actress

“People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.”

Cole porter smiling (Photo credit: Lord Mariser)

J. H. Payne – 1791 – Actor and Poet

“Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”

Bertha Von Suttner – 1843 – Novelist

“Seek not good from without:  seek it within yourself, or you will never find it.”

Weedon Grossmith – 1852 – Writer

“What’s the good of a home, if you are never in it?”

Cole Porter – 1893 – Composer

“It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-lovely.”

Fred Waring – 1900 – Musician

“Be on your toes tonight – or I’ll be on yours tomorrow.”

Kenneth L. Pike – 1912 – Sociologist

“There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.”

Jackie Mason – 1931 Comedian

“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.”

Michael J. Fox (Photo credit: Alan Light)

Patricia Cornwell – 1956 – Writer

“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”

Michael J. Fox – 1961 – Actor

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

Johnny Depp – 1963 – Actor

“There are four questions of value in life…What is sacred?  Of what is the spirit made?  What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for.  The answer to each is the same.  Only love.”

Gloria Reuben – 1964 – Actress

“A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.”

Natalie Portman – 1981 – Actress

Gloria Reuben (Photo credit: kirkamunga)

“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

Mae Whitman – 1988 – Actress

“People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.”

Charles Reade (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Charles Reade – 1814 – Novelist

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

Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867 – Architect

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

Leroy Neiman – 1921 – Artist

“The businessman says, ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’  The artist says, ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.'”

Barbara Bush – 1925 – Wife of President George H. W. Bush

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal.  You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”

Jerry Stiller – 1927 Comedian

“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.”

Joan Rivers – 1933 – Actress

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”

Nancy Sinatra – 1940 – Musician

“I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don’t give them a lot of credence.”

Karen Kingsbury – 1963 – Novelist

“You don’t have love without sacrifice; you can’t have sacrifice without love.”

Julianna Marguiles – 1966 – Actress

“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person.  That has the power to change someone’s day.”

The George H. W. Bush family (l-r front row – Neil Bush, Marvin Bush, Jeb Bush; back row – Doro Bush, George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, George H. W. Bush), early 1960s Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library HS525 (source) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kanye West – 1977 – Rapper

“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me.  As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

Robert Anthony – 1982 – Athlete

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re about average.”

Charles Reade – 1814 – Novelist

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

Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867 – Architect

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

Leroy Neiman – 1921 Artist

“The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’  The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.”

Barbara Bush – 1925 – Wife of President George H. W. Bush

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal.  You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”

Jerry Stiller – 1927 – Comedian

“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.”

Joan Rivers – 1933 – Actress

” Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”

Nancy Sinatra – 1940 – Singer

“I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don’t give them a lot of credence.”

Karen Kingsbury – 1963 – Novelist

“You don’t have love without sacrifice; you can’t have sacrifice without love.”

Julianna Marguiles – 1966 – Actress

“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person.  That has the power to change someone’s day.”

Kanye West – 1977 – Rapper

“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me.  As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

English: Bear Grylls in front of an Alaska Air National Guard, 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter before heading out to Spencer Glacier to film Man vs. Wild (Born

Anna Kournikova at a tennis clinic. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Paul Gauguin – 1848 – French Painter and Wood Engraver

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Robert S. Mulliken – 1896 – Chemist

“I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the computing machine instead of the laboratory for increasingly many facets of chemical information, is already at hand.  There is only one obstacle, namely that someone must pay for the computing time.”

Jessica Tandy – 1909 – Actress

“You are richer by doing things.”

Gwendolyn Brooks – 1917 – Writer and Poet

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”

Nikki Giovanni – 1943 – Poet

“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens.  Life is only about the I-tried-to-do.  I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”

Liam Neeson – 1952 – Irish Actor

“It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.”

Louise Erdrich – 1954 – Writer and Poet

“Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away.  Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”

Prince – 1958 (Prince Rogers Nelson) – Musician

“Everyday is a blessing from God.  And I consider it a new beginning.  Yeah, everything is beautiful.”

Bear Grylls – 1974 (Edward Michael Grylls) – TV Personality

“A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.”

Allen Iverson – 1975 – Basketball Player

“This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.”

Anna Kournikova – 1981 – Russian Tennis Player and Model

“I think it’s really important for me not to forget where I came from.”

Carl Sandburg, American poet (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nathan Hale – 1755 – American Revolutionary War Officer and Hero

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Dean Inge – 1860 – Author

“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said of human beings.”

Robert Falcon Scott – 1868 – Explorer

“Every day some new fact comes to light – some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction.  I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.”

Thomas Mann – 1875 – Novelist

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

Carl Sandburg – 1878 – Poet

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”

Paul Dudley White – 1886 – Scientist

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

Richard E. Smalley – 1943 – Chemist

“I don’t think that most people thought I would amount to anything when I was a high schooler.  Neither did I, frankly…I never thought I would even get a job, let alone be a scientist, let alone be lucky enough to have been in areas that have had an impact so far beyond my expectations.”

Lasse Hallstrom – 1946 – Director

“I love mixing amateurs and professionals.”

Robert Englund – 1947 – Actor and Director

“I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my characters.”

Sandra Bernhard – 1955 – Actress

English: Sandra Bernhard at Daryl Roth Theatre New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.”

John Maynard Keynes Русский: Джон Мейнард Кейнс Türkçe: John Maynard Keynes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Adam Smith – 1723 – Economist

“Man is an animal that makes bargains:  no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.”

George Stephen – 1829 – Businessman

“When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.”

Robert Mayer – 1879 – Businessman

“I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.”

John Maynard Keynes – 1883 – Economist

“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipation of others.”

Ivy Compton Burnett – 1884 – Novelist

“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”

Ruth Benedict – 1887 – Scientist

“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.”

Roy Thomson – 1894 – Publisher

“Think until it hurts.”

Federico Garcia Lorca – 1898 – Poet

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm.  Geometry and anguish.”

Garrett Fort – 1900 – Writer Mark Wahlberg (Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer)

Mark Wahlberg (Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer)

“Superstition?  Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?”

Alfred Kazin – 1915 – Critic

“If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we’d look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.”

Tony Richardson – 1928 – Stage and Film Director

“Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.”

Helene Cixous – 1937 – Writer

“Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.”

Joe Clark – 1939 – Scientist

“Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.”

Margaret Drabble – 1939 – Novelist

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”

MARGARET DRABBLE AT BEVERLEY BOOKFEST (Photo credit: summonedbyfells)

Whitfield Diffie – 1944 – Scientist

“If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.”

John Bach – 1946 – Actor

“To the timid soul, nothing is possible.”

David Horne – 1947 – Playwright

“No one but a fool is always right.”

Laurie Anderson – 1947 – Musician

“As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.”

Ken Follett – 1949 – Author

“The research is the easiest.  The outline is the most fun.  The first draft is the hardest because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out.  The rewrite is very satisfying.”

Suze Orman – 1951 – Financial Advisor and Writer

“If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”

Peter Erskine – 1954 – Musician

“There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.”

Kenny G – 1956 – Musician

“I really create everything I do from the heart.”

Ron Livingston – 1968 – Actor

“Life is not always like chess.  Just because you have the king surrounded, don’t think he is not capable of hurting you.”

Brian McKnight – 1969 – Musician

“I don’t care how small the game.  I want to win.”

Mark Wahlberg – 1971 – Actor

“A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.”

Cover of Life Is a Banquet

Rosalind Russell – 1907 – Actress

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

Jacques Roumain – 1907 – Writer

“You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.”

Robert Merrill – 1917 – Baritone Opera Singer

“When in doubt, sing loud.”

Dennis Weaver – 1924 – Actor

“Business must be the solution, not the problem.”

Robert Fulghum – 1937 – Author

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

Anthony Braxton – 1945 – Musician

“Everybody in America is angry about something.”

Jim Wallis – 1948 – Writer

“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense.  But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.”

Parker Stevenson – 1952 – Actor

“I made a classic mistake.  I held out for something better.”

Scott Wolf – 1968 – Actor

“You can’t do your work worrying about what people will think of it – you kind of just have to do your work.”

Noah Wyle – 1971 – Actor

Angelina Jolie on the set of “Changeling” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

     “I think when you are names Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.”

Angelina Jolie – 1975 – Actress

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”