Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
Popular quotes of the
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Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.
Jerome Flynn -
With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
Rumi -
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
Thomas Hood -
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
Plato
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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
Coco Chanel -
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp -
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
Angela Lansbury -
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter -
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.
Bret Stephens -
Everything can be satirized.
Sam Kinison
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson -
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
T. C. Boyle -
This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again
Regina Spektor -
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
Mallory Ortberg -
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams -
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
Alan Rickman
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This town was built on nepotism.
Damon Wayans -
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
Dorothy Malone -
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence -
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
Yayoi Kusama -
I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
Rand Paul -
Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.'
Laurie Hernandez
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My office is definitely an extension of my personality. I spend more time here than anywhere else, so it's important that it reflects my style and that it's an inspiring place to think - although it's admittedly impossible to keep clean with a gazillion beauty products coming in and out all the time.
Elaine Welteroth -
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan