yes, this list is long but try reading it some things you can get a lot out of some things are just for fun ^^

  • Henry David Thoreau
    • "But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
  • Epicurus
    • Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    • A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
    • Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
    • Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
    • Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    • Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
    • Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
    • Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
  • Queen Victoria
    • The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
    • A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
    • Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
    • I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
  • Queen Elizabeth I
    • All my possessions for a moment of time.
    • I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
    • I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
    • I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
  • Queen Elizabeth II
    • Grief is the price we pay for love.
  • Christian Bale
    • An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
    • I have a fear of being boring.
    • I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
    • I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
    • I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
    • It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
  • Fredric Chopin
    • Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
  • Johnny Depp
    • I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
    • I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
    • I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
    • If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
    • I think everybody's nuts.
  • Albert Einstein
    • A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
    • A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
    • A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
    • Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
    • Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
    • I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
    • I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
  • Jackie Chan
    • The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
    • I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
    • I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
    • Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again
    • Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
  • Marie Curie
    • There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
    • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
    • Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
  • George Clooney
    • After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
    • America can't beat anyone anymore.
    • I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
    • I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
    • The only failure is not to try.
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    • I am a woman above everything else.
    • Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
    • I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
    • I want to live my life, not record it.
    • I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
    • There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
  • Martha Washington
    • I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
  • Abigail Adams
    • Great necessities call out great virtues.
    • We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
  • Coco Chanel
    • A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
    • As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
    • Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
    • Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
    • Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
    • Great loves too must be endured.
    • Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
    • In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
    • Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
    • Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
    • Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
    • Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
    • There are people who have money and people who are rich.
    • The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

and that is it for now... :)

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