50 Famous, Inspirational, Memorable / Popular Quotes

• 15 MINUTES OF FAME - "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new - Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
• A Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose - written by Gertrude Stein in 1913.
• A woman is a young as her knees - Mary Quant (1934-).
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
• ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
• Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful - Warren Buffett (1930-).
• Bene qui latuit, bene vixit - "One who lives well, lives unnoticed." Ovid's (43 BC–17 AD) Tristitia.
• Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success - Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010).
• BEWARE OF GREEKS BEARING GIFTS - Virgil's (70 BC-19 BC) Aeneid, Book II.
• Count Your Blessings - definition & explanation.
• damn fine cup of coffee - FBI Special Agent Cooper's description of his favorite drink: 'Blacker than midnight on a moonless night' in the cult TV classic Twin Peaks, by David Lynch.
• DEATH & TAXES - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
• Elegance is refusal - Coco Chanel.
• Elvis has left the building - definition & explanation.
• Every problem is an opportunity in disguise - John Quincy Adams (1767-1848).
• Find your own particular talent; Be big; Be honest; Live with enthusiasm; Don’t let your possessions possess you; Don’t worry about your problems; Look up to people when you can - down to no one; Don’t cling to the past; Assume your full share of responsibility in the world and, finally, Pray consistently and constantly - Conrad Hilton (1887-1979).
• GREED IS GOOD! - Gordon Gekko-quote from the movie Wall Street.
• how the other half lives - Jacob Riis (1849-1914).
• I cannot afford to waste my time making money - Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).
• I do not choose to be a common man ... it is my right to be uncommon — if I can ... I seek opportunity — not security ... I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed ... to refuse to barter incentive for a dole ... I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias ... - Peter O'Toole (1932-2013).
• I HAVE A DREAM - speech delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).
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• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - 1952 to Carl Seelig, his biographer.
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work - Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931).
• I never order fish on Monday - wrote Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) in his 1999 memoir Kitchen Confidential, explaining that restaurants typically work with supplies purchased the previous Thursday. It was a vivid insider's detail in a popular book, and it took hold.
• I think that art is really disciplined phantasy - Karen Blixen (1885-1962). Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is best known under her pen name Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries.
• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have sex appeal & simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes - French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008).
• IF I TELL YOU, I'LL HAVE TO KILL YOU - Internet-jargon. Originally quote from the movie Top Gun.
• IF YOU CAN THINK IT, I CAN DO IT! - motto of Kim Weiss (1949-), Founder of The International Man | TheInternationalMan.com (2000).
• it is better to be looked down on than overlooked - John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (1917-2002).
• IT'S EITHER MY WAY, OR THE HIGH WAY - says mayor of New York John Pappas played by actor Al Pacino to Brooklyn politician Frank Anselmo played by Danny Aiello at a meeting in the film City Hall (1996).
• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - SØren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).
• List of Latin phrases - Wikipedia.
• MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY - quote from the movie Reservoir Dogs (1992). Mr. Blonde: "Either he's alive or he's dead, or the cops got him... or they don't. ... There's two ways you can go on this job: MY WAY OR THE HIGH WAY."
• Not Everything That Counts Can be Counted
• Not giving a shit has been a very, very good business model for me - Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018).
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• One More Thing... - Steve Jobs keynotes were often punctuated by memorables “One More Thing...” moments in a manner similar to Peter Falk’s Columbo character.
• QUÉ SERÁ, SERÁ - "Whatever will be, will be."
• Speeches That Changed the World - Amazon.com.
• STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH - Steve Jobs (1955-2011).
• THE SKY IS THE LIMIT - definition & explanation.
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• Turn on, tune in, drop out - counterculture phrase popularized by Timothy Leary (1920-1996) in 1967.
• VANITY OF VANITIES. ALL IS VANITY - Ecclesiastes 1:2.
• We've socialized losses & privatized gains - Joseph Stiglitz (1943-).
• YES, WE CAN! - President of the United States of America Barack Obama (1961-).
• YIPPEE-KI-YAY - the greatest one-liner in movie history from the movie Die Hard.
• Your work is the most important thing you do. It helps define you and make you what you are - member of the Getty family, which originally made its money from oil, he is the son of American-British billionaire philanthropist Sir John Paul Getty, Jr., Mark Getty (1960-).