Famous Quotes Update
Today's Famous Quotes:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.
Henry David Thoreau
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Glenda Jackson
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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