Famous Quotes
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“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
“Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
“Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our arses.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“All things in it are in constant motion - the earth, the rocks of the caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt - both within the common motion and with their own. Stability itself is nothing but a more languid motion.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man’s great striving.]3”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If someone presses me to say why I loved him, I feel that I cannot express it other than by answering, 'Because it was he, because it was I.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“As conversation with men is wonderfully helpful, so is a visit to foreign lands...to whet and sharpen our wits by rubbing them upon those of others."--Montaigne”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If you do not know how to die, never trouble yourself; nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take no care for it.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Many things that I would not care to tell to any individual man I tell to the public, and for knowledge of my most secret thoughts I refer my most loyal friends to a bookseller's stall.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.'
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
Quote by -Idris Elba
As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.
Quote by -Idris Elba
I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
Quote by -Idris Elba
"Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman