Popular quotes (page 75) | Quotes of famous people

“I know too much and not enough”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

People , Personality

“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”

Marina Abramović (1946) Yugoslav-American artist

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Nature , Thinking , Learning

“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

Source: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29

“Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?

I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.”

Cher (1946) American singer and actress

Guy , Thinking , Singing

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Night

“As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.”

Protagoras (-486–-411 BC) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Opening lines of Concerning the Gods (DK 80 B4).
Variant translation: "As to the Gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, or if they do, what they are like."

Life , God

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

For women , Motivational , Back To Work , Learning

“It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.”

Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Love , Flowers , Bee

“How many people you know who can name every serial killer who ever existed in a row?”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

2000s, Relapse (2009)

People

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached … We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.”

Edward Sapir (1884–1939) American linguist and anthropologist

The Status Of Linguistics As A Science (1929), p. 69 
Context: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached … We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

World , Communication