Famous Quotes by Famous People

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor,(February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the greatest screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized as much for her acting ability as for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty, and distinctive dark blue eyes, which famously appeared to be violet. I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. So much to do, so little done, such things to be. I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. It's not the having, it's the getting. It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. The problem with people who have no vic...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 25 December 1924) is an Indian statesman who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he is the first Prime Minister from outside the Indian National Congress party to serve a full five-year term. Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. T...

John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership. We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. Love is the flower you've got to let grow. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong...

Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin,(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. A day without laughter is a day wasted. You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine. Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. I do not have much patience with a thing ...

Karl Marx  (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London in the United Kingdom. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought.He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894). Some Famous quotes by Karl Marx.  History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Democracy is the road to socialism.. Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.. Religi...

'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper. 15% of Americans secretly bite their toes. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans. Hot water is heavier than cold. A broken clock is always right twice a day. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. One man’s folly is another man’s wife. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not. A group of frogs is called an army. Albert Einstien never wore any socks. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices ar...