Quotes with present-day

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1406.

  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
    1984 Hfd. 2
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
    - +
     0
  • Alberto Giacometti Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Parsons Day Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality.
    Edward Parsons Day
    English editor (1822 - 1906)
    - +
     0
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
    - +
     0
  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Augusten Burroughs With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bria Skonberg With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Lincoln With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
     0
  • Eleanor Roosevelt With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
    - +
     0
  • Bootsy Collins Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
    - +
     0
  • Bil Keane Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
    - +
     0
All present-day famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 67)