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Quotes of Celebrities
Truth is the only ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Women's suffrage leader
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
Ivana Trump after writing her first novel
"An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished."
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) U.S. painter
"Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"
Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974), Polish-born U.S. film producer
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
Samuel Goldwyn
"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"The trick is to structure your question so that the answer No gets you what you want."
Lorren 'Rus' Stiles, Sr.,Comanche project pilot
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
"Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
Fred Allen
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
Joe Girard
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -- and never succeeding."
Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and graphic artist
"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet, French artist
"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart Aviator (1897 - 1937)
"Let's Roll"
Todd Beamer 9-11-2001
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
David Brinkley
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent."
Vincent van Gogh
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz - Motivation Training Guru
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
"Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?"
Ralph Nader
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), film director.
Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar
"The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"
Ken Konecki,
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
Gil Stern
"Television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it."
Alfred Hitchcock
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
" I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
Tammy Fay Baker.
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do… with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. "
Vincent van Gogh
"If I had any humility I would be perfect."
Ted Turner
"A doctor can always bury his mistakes. An architect can only advise his client to plant ivy."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
Walt Disney
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryant
"Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years."
Monty Hall
"If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done. I shall not remain in-significant. I shall work in the world and for mankind!"
Anne Frank, In her diary.
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Germaine Greer
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
G. Gordon Liddy
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
Betty Ford (1918-)US First Lady, dancer, philanthropist
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez TV Director, Producer
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
Michael Pritchard acclaimed keynote speaker
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
Samuel Goldwyn
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