Famous Speeches Quotes

#1. I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

Tom Stoppard

#2. There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Barbara Stanwyck

#4. I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

Jason Mraz

#5. They looked more like sisters than mother and daughter, and I wondered if believing in Jesus kept you younger-looking. But then I thought, if that were really true, Linda would be the biggest Jesus freak going, because she'd drown a baby in a bathtub if it would make her look ten years younger.

Matthew Quick

#6. Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

Frances McDormand

#7. I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Colonel Sanders

#8. I didn't say a word but stared
At Derek, still a little hazed.
He stared back, uncertain, scared,
Still unbelieving and amazed.

Tatyana K. Varenko

#9. I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

George Steinbrenner

#10. Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.

Lauren Myracle

#11. The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Edmund Burke

#12. There was something prehistoric about it, like a beast of a lost world

Gill Lewis

#13. With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated.

Stacia Kane

#14. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

Emilio Estevez

#16. I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Mahmoud Darwish

#17. I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

Sharron Angle