Quotes of famous people

„Granted we known each other for some time
but it don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine“

—  Common (rapper) American rapper, actor and author from Illinois 1972

"The Light" (Track 7)
Albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000)

„The chosen one from the land of the frozen sun, where drunk nights get remembered more than sober ones“

—  Common (rapper) American rapper, actor and author from Illinois 1972

"Be (Intro)" (Track 1)
Albums, Be (2005)

„I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.“

—  Whitney Houston American singer, actress, model, and record producer 1963 - 2012

„When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.“

—  Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

„No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.“

—  Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

„Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!“

—  Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963

„The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.“

—  Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

„Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941

„It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.“

—  Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

„How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.“

—  Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994

Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/harry-styles-opens-up-about-famous-flings-honest-new-lp-w476928
Context: Who's to say that young girls who like pop music – short for popular, right? – have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy? That's not up to you to say. Music is something that's always changing. There's no goal posts. Young girls like the Beatles. You gonna tell me they're not serious? How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going. Teenage-girl fans – they don't lie. If they like you, they're there. They don't act 'too cool.' They like you, and they tell you. Which is sick.

„We Shouldn't Presume That A Group Of Experts Somehow Knows What's Best.“

—  Rand Paul American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky 1963

2020
Source: 30 June 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/30/rand-paul-to-federal-health-officials-we-shouldnt-presume-that-a-group-of-experts-somehow-knows-whats-best/#684b8b2239a8/

„Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.“

—  George Steiner American writer 1929 - 2020

"The Retreat from the Word," Kenyon Review (Spring 1961).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

„Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.“

—  George Steiner American writer 1929 - 2020

Source: Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City, Ch. 4 (p. 11).

„Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray.“

—  Camille Saint-Saëns French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Romantic era 1835 - 1921

“L’illusion wagnérienne”, Portraits et souvenirs, Société d’édition artistique, 1899, 206‒220

„I don't feel much pain Got a knife in my back, and a bullet in my brain I’m clinically insane Walkin' home alone, I see faces in the rain“

—  Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017

Song The Way I See Things, Album: LiL PEEP; PART ONE

„It is hidden but always present.“

—  Laozi, book Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 4, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
Context: The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.

„I can still feel within me the strength and readiness for hardship and suffering, yet I would like to live long enough to see the day when I might freely work for Poland, and not wander aimlessly through God knows what land. […] And if death finds me working on alien soil, this too will not be without profit for Poland, particularly if among some distant tribe, the farthest possible from our country, they will remember a Pole, will wish Poland well, and will be supportive toward her.“

—  Ignacy Domeyko Polish mineralogist and geologist 1802 - 1889

From Listy do Władysława Laskowicza (Letters to Władysław Laskowicz), Warsaw, Pax, 1976.

„A smile is the universal welcome.“

—  Max Eastman American activist 1883 - 1969

Source: The Sense of Humor