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Lucille Ball Quotes

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Lucille Ball Quotes

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. – Lucille Ball Quotes

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball Quotes

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball Quotes

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball Quotes

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball Quotes

The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts. – Lucille Ball Quotes

You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Confucius Quotes

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Study the past, if you would divine the future. – Confucius Quotes

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius Quotes

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. – Confucius Quotes

The cautious seldom err. – Confucius Quotes

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius Quotes

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. – Confucius Quotes

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. – Confucius Quotes

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. – Confucius Quotes

The object of the superior man is truth. – Confucius Quotes

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. – Confucius Quotes

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius Quotes

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius Quotes

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius Quotes

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius Quotes

Les Paul Quotes

Posted on June 9, 2011June 12, 2011 by

I have younger friends who don’t work, and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

I used my mother’s radio as a PA system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

I Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.

One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

25 Motivational Quotes

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

1. Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk. ~J.C. Penny

2. Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~Conrad Hilton

3. Intolerance of your present creates your future. ~Mike Murdock

4. When they back the ‘hearse’ up to the front door, they are not making a practice run. ~Van Crouch

5. I can, therefore I am. ~Simone Weil

6. I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~Ken Venturi

7. I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. ~Mia Hamm

8. If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney

9. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~Jim Rohn

10. It’s always too early to quit. ~Norman Vincent Peale

11. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. ~Denis Waitley

12. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. ~Jessica Savitch

13. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ~Peter Marshall

14. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~Kyle Chandler

15. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~Walter Elliot

16. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ~Jimmy Dean

17. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert H. Schuller

18. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~Aristotle

19. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ~Eileen Caddy

20. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~Tony Robbins

21. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall

22. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

23. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ~Thomas Paine

24. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~Confucius

25. The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ~Baltasar Gracian

Friendship Quotes and Sayings

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ~Anna Cummins

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.” ~ Helen Keller

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides, Greek playwrite

“There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships ,plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important types of ships are friendships.” ~Robert J. Badar JR.

“My best friend was born in a manger” ~Kimberly Dawn

“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world has walked away.” ~Kimberly Dawn

“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ~ Len Wein

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“A true friend is one who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~Kimberly Dawn

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy….watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship; Keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known. ~ Amy R Raabe

“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~Elizabeth Foley

I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.– E.E. Cummings

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~G. B. Shaw

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to aquire.” –Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.” –Amanda Bradley

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

“If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.” ~B.A. Billingsly

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. ~Margaret Guenther

Top 20 Henry Ford Quotes

Posted on May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 by

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” – Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” – Henry Ford

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” – Henry Ford

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can” – Henry Ford

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” – Henry Ford

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves”- Henry Ford

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” – Henry Ford

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford

“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.” – Henry Ford

Funny Anonymous Quotes

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list.

The word ‘studying’ was made up of two words originally – ‘students dying’.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

24 hours in a day 24 beers in a case coincidence? I think not.

If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” Father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying.”

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband.

Short Love Quotes

Posted on April 9, 2011April 9, 2011 by

After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb

“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw

“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates

“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown

“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare

“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason

“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway

“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati

“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs

“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau

“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis

“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss

“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann

Life Quotes

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

In Europe, now it is morning. It’s 9 AM. I dare you to start this perfect day with some great life quotes.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E. B. White

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I love life because what more is there.” – Anthony Hopkins

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” – John Burroughs

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James

“Only a few things are really important.” – Marie Dressler

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life-you just hang around until you get used to it.” – Charles M. Schulz

“May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” – H. L. Mencken

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” – William Lyon Phelps

“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.” – Karen Horney

The most important thing…

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

The most important thing about a person is what you don’t know. – Arrow Barbara Kingsolver