Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Interesting Quotes By People Whose Last Name Starts With "Z"

1)  "Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."  ~  Timothy Zahn, writer




2)  "Explosions are not comfortable."  ~  Yevgeny Zamyatin, novelist





3)  "The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."  ~  Israel Zangwill, novelist





4)  "If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless."  ~  Darryl F. Zanuck, film director





5)  "My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."  ~  Jamie Zawinski, computer programmer





6) 
"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."  ~  Roger Zelazny, writer





7)  "I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses."  ~  Renee Zellweger, actress





8)  "No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."  ~  Citium Zeno, philosopher




9)  "There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs."  ~  Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress





10)  "Enjoy every sandwich."  ~  Warren Zevon, musician





11)  "You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."  ~  Xi Zhi, philosopher





12)  "We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."  ~  Zhuangzi, philosopher





13)  "I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."  ~  Xun Zi, philosopher






14)  "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."  ~  Zig Ziglar, author





15)  "One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."  ~  Emile Zola, novelist




16)  "You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it."  ~  Eric Zorn, journalist





17)  "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."  ~  Mark Zuckerberg, businessman




18)  "The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it."  ~  Leopold Zunz, clergyman




19)  "In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."  ~  Stefan Zweig, writer





20)  "I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting."  ~  Edward Zwick, film director


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