Quote Queen

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Francis Jeffrey – 1773 – Judge

“There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.”

Robert Bridges – 1884 – Poet

“When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.”

Lilyan Tashman – 1896 – Actress

“It’s more boring for a woman to talk about clothes than for a man to talk of his golf score.”

Harvey Penick – 1904 – Athlete

“Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.”

Gertrude Ederle – 1906 – Swimmer of the English Channel

“When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that’s when I do it.”

James Daly – 1918 – Actor

“You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas.   You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday.  It’s a job that you never push aside.”

Fred Shero – 1925 – Athlete

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.  You must first set yourself on fire.”

Johnny Carson – 1925 – TV Show Host

“Talent alone won’t make you a success.  Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready.  The most important question is:  ‘Are you ready?'”

Chi Chi Rodriguez – 1935 – Professional Golfer (Juan Rodriguez)

“Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.”

Pele – 1940 – Athlete

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”

Douglas Dunn – 1942 – Poet

“A poet’s cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.”

Michael Crichton – 1942 – Author

English: “Weird Al” Yankovic performing live in concert during his 2010 Tour. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.”

Anita Roddick – 1942 – Businesswoman

“If you do things well, do them better.  Be daring, be first, be different, be just.”

Dwight Yoakam – 1956 – Musician

“Control success before it controls you.”

Weird Al Yankovic – 1959 – Entertainer

“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.”

Laurie Halse Anderson – 1961 – Writer

“Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.”

Augusten Burroughs – 1965 – Writer

“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write.  It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author.  You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”

Larry Dixon – 1966 – Driver

“If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.”

Ryan Reynolds – 1976 – Actor

“Guys are lucky:  We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.”

Amandla Stenberg – 1998 – Actress

“My mom reminds me that all things are possible.”

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James Northcote – 1746 – Artist

“Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.”

Franz Linzt – 1811 – Composer

“A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own.  This is common sense.”

Collis Potter Huntington – 1821 – Businessman

“I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.”

Sarah Bernhardt – 1845 – Actress

“Life begets life.  Energy creates energy.  It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

Lord Alfred Douglas – 1870 – Poet

“All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.”

Burton Rascoe – 1892 – Journalist

“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out the window.”

Harry Callahan – 1912 – Photographer

“Experience is the best teacher of all.  And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist.  Only the journey matters.”

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Robert Capa – 1913 – Photographer

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”

Joan Fontaine – 1917 – Actress

“If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody’s hobby.”

Doris Lessing – 1919 – Writer

“A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.”

Robert Rauschenberg – 1925 – Artist

“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.”

Ann Rule – 1935 – Writer

“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.”

Annette Funicello – 1942 – Actress

“Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.”

Catherine Deneuve – 1943 – Actress

“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.”

Deepak Chopra – 1946 – Philosopher

“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”

Debbie Macomber – 1948 – Author

“Readers have actually changed the way I’ve done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times.  Just from reader feedback.”

Arsene Wenger – 1949 – Coach

“If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”

Jeff Goldblum – 1952 – Actor

“It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely.”

Hilary Rosen – 1958 – Businesswoman

“Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans – they love their music, and want more.”

Brian Boitano – 1963 – Athlete

“The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.”

Ichiro Suzuki – 1973 – Athlete

“People striving for approval from others become phony.  You should seek approval from yourself.”

English: Image of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Vision of Sir Launfal (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Russell Lowell}, collected by H. G. Hall and Edward Everett Hale. Published by Sampson Low, 1906. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 1772 – Poet

“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

Alphonse de Lamartine – 1790 – Poet

“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”

Alfred Nobel – 1833 – Chemist and Industrialist

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

Will Carleton – 1845 – Poet

“If there’s a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when he’s been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”

Ted Shawn – 1891 – Dancer

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

Leo Burnett – 1891 – Businessman

“When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”

Paul Brunton – 1898 – Philosopher

“Worry is spiritual short sight.  Its cure is intelligent faith.”

Patrick Kavanagh – 1904 – Poet

“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”

Dizzy Gillespie – 1917 – Jazz Trumpeter (John Birks Gillespie)

“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

Malcolm Arnold – 1921 – Composer

“Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.”

Whitey Ford – 1928 – Athlete (Edward Charles Ford)

“The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.”

Ursula K. Le Guin – 1929 – Writer

“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

Français : Le trompettiste américain de jazz Dizzy Gillespie en concert à Deauville (Normandie, France) le 20 juillet 1991. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Natalia Makarova – 1940 – Dancer

“To look back all the time is boring.  Excitement lies in tomorrow.”

Mary Pipher – 1947 – Psychologist

“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”

Carrie Fisher – 1956 – Actress

“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now.  I might as well take a nap.'”

Julian Cope – 1957 – Musician

“I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.”

Sir Christopher Wren in Godfrey Kneller’s 1711 portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sir Christopher Wren – 1632 – British Astronomer and Geometer

“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes.  They should see planets like our Earth.”

John Dewey – 1859 – Philosopher, Psychologist, and Educator

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

Bela Lugosi – 1882 – Actor

“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber, or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”

Evelyn Waugh – 1903 – Writer

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.”

Arlene Francis – 1907 – Actress

“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances.  Those too big to pass through are our friends.”

Art Buchwald – 1925 – Newspaper Columnist

“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”

Joyce Brothers – 1927 – Psychologist and Newspaper Columnist

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

Mickey Mantle – 1931 – Professional Baseball Player

“Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run.  I said, ‘Sure, every time.'”

William Christopher – 1932 – Actor

“I’ve often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life.  I’ve wanted to be an actor since first grade.  I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was . . . magic.”

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard – 1942 – Geneticist

“I immediately loved working with flies.  They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.”

Lewis Grizzard – 1946 – Comedian and Columnist

“The game of life is a lot like football.  You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”

Tom Petty – 1950 – Singer, Guitarist, and Songwriter

“Most things I worry about never happen anyway.”

English: Bela Lugosi as Dracula, anonymous photograph from 1931, Universal Studios (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Viggo Mortensen – 1958 – Actor, Musician, Poet, and Photographer

“Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.”

Snoop Dogg – 1971 – Actor (Calvin Broadus)

“If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world.  Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.”

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Marsilio Ficino – 1433 – Philosopher

“You are running to seek your friend.  Let your feet run, but your mind need not.”

Thomas Browne – 1605 – Scientist

“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”

Leigh Hunt – 1784 – Poet

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

Annie Smith Peck – 1850 – Mountain Climber

“Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.”

Charles E. Merrill – 1885 – Businessman

“If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.”

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – 1910 – Scientist

“Science is a perception of the world around us.  Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”

Jack Anderson – 1922 – Journalist

“The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes.  If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist.”

John le Carre – 1931 – Writer

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

Peter Max – 1937 – Artist

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas.  The canvas paints itself.  I’m just the middleman.”

Renata Adler – 1938 – Journalist

“Fear . . . is forward.  No one is afraid of yesterday.”

Andrew Vachss – 1942 – Author

“Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.”

John Lithgow – 1945 – Actor

“Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.”

Philip Pullman – 1946 – Writer

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his later years (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”

James Howard Kunstler – 1948 – Businessman

“I don’t like talking about ‘solutions.’  I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”

Tracy Chevalier – 1962 – Author

“I try to write 1,000 words a day – about three pages.  When I reach 1,000 words I feel good.  Less than that:  a failure. More than that:  tired.”

Ty Pennington – 1964 – Entertainer

“A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.”

Chris Kattan – 1970 – Comedian

“Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.”

Joy Bryant – 1976 – Actress

“Camo never goes out of style as far as I’m concerned.”

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Matthew Henry – 1662 – Clergyman

“None so deaf as those that will not hear.  None so blind as those that will not see.”

Thomas Love Peacock – 1785 – Author

“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book – it is a plaything.”

Henry Taylor – 1800 – Dramatist

“He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.”

Helen Hunt Jackson – 1831 – Writer

“When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.”

Thomas Reed – 1839 – Politician

“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”

Henri Bergson – 1859 – Philosopher

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

Logan Pearsall Smith – 1865 – Essayist

“There are two things to aim at in this life:  first to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

James Truslow Adams – 1878 – Historian

“There are obviously two educations.  One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

Fannie Hurst – 1885 – Writer

“Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”

A. J. Liebling – 1904 – Journalist

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Pierre Trudeau – 1919 – Canadian Prime Minister

“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”

Jesse Helms – 1921 – Politician

Alumnus Mike Ditka is a Hall of Fame tight end, coach and well known broadcaster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“The challenge is always before us.  Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.”

Chuck Berry – 1926 – Musician

“You don’t let the same dog bite you twice.”

Klaus Kinski – 1926 – Actor

“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.”

George C. Scott – 1927 – Actor

“There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition.  Then a self-loathing sets in when you realize you’re enjoying it.”

Peter Boyle – 1935 – Actor

“I don’t think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.”

Mike Ditka – 1939 – Coach

“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank.  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

Cynthia Weil – 1940 – Musician

“Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.”

Wendy Wasserstein – 1950 – Playwright

“Don’t live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.”

Martina Navratilova – 1956 – Tennis Player

“Disability is matter of perception.  If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.”

Jean-Claude Van Damme – 1960 – Actor

“Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth.  You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes.  I have a tendency to believe people.”

Erin Moran – 1961 – Actress

“Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don’t see or hear about me.  This business is very unpredictable.  A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.”

Zac Efron – 1987 – Actor

“I’m very competitive by nature.  And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win.  To come from behind and win is a great feeling.”

Bristol Palin – 1990 – Author

“Never lie to your mother.  That’s like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know.”

Elinor Glyn (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Georg Buchner – 1813 – Dramatist

“A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.”

Paul Bert – 1833 – Scientist

“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.”

Elinor Glyn – 1864 – Author

“American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.”

Shinichi Suzuki – 1898 – Educator

“Children learn to smile from their parents.”

Nathanael West – 1903 – Writer

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”

Arthur Miller – 1915 – Playwright

“Everybody like a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”

Rita Hayworth – 1918 – Actress

“We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.”

Montgomery Cliff – 1920 – Actor

“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”

Robert Atkins – 1930 – Diet and Nutrition Expert

“Don’t fix what’s not broken.”

Jimmy Breslin – 1930 – Entertainer

“Media, the plural of mediocrity.”

Evel Knievel – 1938 – Motorcycle Stunt Performer (Robert Craig Knievel)

“Anybody can jump a motorcycle.  The trouble begins when you try to land it.”

Gary Zukav – 1942 – Author

“A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.”

Cameron Mackintosh – 1946 – Businessman

“Having to think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximize what you can achieve to the highest standard.”

Margot Kidder – 1948 – Actress

“With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things.  When you’re in the public eye, it’s just amplified, that’s all.”

Michael Tolkin – 1950 – Writer

“One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living.  And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.”

Mae Jemison – 1956 – Astronaut

English: US astronaut Mae Jemison at Kennedy Space Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Some people say they feel very small when they think about space.  I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.”

Alan Jackson – 1958 – Musician

“If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.”

Graeme Le Saux – 1968 – Athlete

“You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.”

Rick Mercer – 1969 – Comedian

“Do the unexpected.  Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do:  vote.”

Eminem – 1972 – Musician (Marshall Bruce Mathers, III)

“Trust is hard to come by.  That’s why my circle is small and tight.  I’m kind of funny about making new friends.”

Randall Munroe – 1984 – Cartoonist

“I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you’ve ever read.”

Max Irons – 1985 – Actor

“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way.  And a sense of humor.  It’s like medicine, very healing.”

Cyril Ponnamperuma (1923-1994) (Photo credit: Smithsonian Institution)

Oscar Wilde – 1854 – Dramatist

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”

Eugene O’Neill – 1888 – Dramatist

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”

Paul Strand – 1890 – Photographer

“The artist’s world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep!”

William O. Douglas – 1898 – Judge

“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.  The audience that hurled yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”

Dino Buzzati – 1906 – Novelist

“Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.”

Kathleen Winsor – 1919 – Athlete

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”

Cyril Ponnamperuma – 1923 – Scientist

“Scientists are human, they’re as biased as any other group.  But they do have one great disadvantage in that science is a self-correcting process.”

Angela Lansbury – 1925 – Actress

“I made about 56 movies, I think.  Not that many.”

Charles Colson – 1931 – Lawyer

“Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.”

Barry Corbin – 1940 – Actor

“We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.”

Robert Bringhurst – 1946 – Poet

“Popularity isn’t just something that happens.  You have to give something in exchange for it, and that’s the dangerous part of the process.”

Suzanne Somers – 1946 – Actress

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“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

David Zucker – 1947 – Director

“Quit now, you’ll never make it.  If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.”

Andre Leon Talley – 1949 – Editor

“I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love.  In my life that came from my grandmother.”

Elinor Lipman – 1950 – Novelist

“Five hundred words a day is what I aim for.  And I don’t go on to the next chapter until I’ve polished and polished and polished the one I’m working on.”

Martha Smith – 1953 – Actress

“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”

James Newman – 1956 – Astronaut

“Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.”

Tim Robbins – 1958 – Actor

“I think the enemy is self-censorship.  In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.”

David Neeleman – 1959 – Businessman

“It’s so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.”

John Mayer – 1977 – Musician

“Life is like a box of crayons.  Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back.  I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing.”

Jeremy Jackson – 1980 – Actor

“Sometimes you win by losing.”

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Mikhail Lermontov – 1814 – Poet

“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”

Friedrich Nietzsche – 1844 – Philosopher

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

Edith Wilson – 1872 – First Lady – Second Wife of President Woodrow Wilson

“I feel I am sharing your work – and being taken into partnership as it were.”

Jane Darwell – 1879 – Actress

“I’ve played Henry Fonda’s mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him ‘son’ and he calls me ‘Ma’, just to save time.”

Marie Stopes – 1880 – Author

“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.”

P. G. Wodehouse – 1881 – Writer (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize.  The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

Godfrey Winn – 1906 – Journalist

“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.  Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”

John Kenneth Galbraith – 1908 – Economist

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. – 1917 – Historian

“Righteousness is easy in retrospect.”

Mario Puzo – 1921 – Novelist

“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”

Italo Calvino – 1923 – Journalist

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Lee Iacocca – 1924 – Businessman

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

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Evan Hunter – 1926 – Author

“Readers are what it’s all about, aren’t they?  If not, why am I writing?”

Leonard Peikoff – 1933 – Philosopher

“The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.”

Linda Lavin – 1937 – Actress

“Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.”

Penny Marshall – 1942 – Actress

“I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.”

Jim Palmer – 1945 – Athlete

“Most pitchers are too smart to manage.”

Joni Eareckson Tada – 1949 – Author

“If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.”

Walter Jon Williams – 1953 – Writer

“I’m not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I’m afraid of what real human beings do to other real human beings.”

Tito Jackson – 1953 – Musician

“I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that’s one of the best ways to be.”

Sarah Ferguson – 1959 – British Royalty

“Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.”

Todd Solondz – 1959 – Writer

“Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.”

Emeril Lagasse – 1959 – Chef

“Cleanliness is very important.  If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you’re not really teaching them anything.”

Michael Lewis – 1960 – Author

“I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame.  Wouldn’t it be nice if they looked in the mirror?”

Paige Davis – 1969 – Actress

“The best thing about New York is everything is available.  Whatever you want, New York has got it.”

Vanessa Marcil – 1969 – Actress

“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendship with other women and her honesty with men.”

Adora Svitak – 1997 – Author

“Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.”

William Penn – 1644 – Leader and Founder of Pennsylvania

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

George Grenville – 1712 – British Statesman

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“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.”

Miles Franklin – 1879 – Writer

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”

Katherine Mansfield – 1888 – Author

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower – 1890 – 34th President of the United States

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

e. e. Cummings – 1894 – Poet (Edward Estlin Cummings)

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

Lillian Gish – 1896 – Entertainer

“What you get is a living what you give is a life.”

W. Edwards Deming – 1900 – Scientist

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.”

Ruth Bernhard – 1905 – Photographer

“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.”

John Wooden – 1910 – UCLA Basketball Coach

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

Roger Moore – 1927 – Actor

Lillian Gish ~ Photoplay Magazine, Sept. 1915 (Photo credit: The Bees Knees Daily)

“Teach love, generosity, good manners, and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.”

Ralph Lauren – 1939 – Fashion Designer (Ralph Lipschitz)

“I don’t design clothes.  I design dreams.”

Katy Manning – 1946 – Actress

“Life doesn’t get easier but it does get funnier.”

Steve Coogan – 1965 – Comedian

“If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.”

Usher – 1978 – Musician (Usher Raymond IV)

“Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”