Some interesting quotes from famous people, past and present.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall (3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025) was an English anthropolgist famed for her six decades of chimpanzee research in Tanzania. She was the first to document behavior by chimpanzees that closely matched that of humans, including the use of tools and the passing of knowledge across generations.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784 ) was a poet, playwright, critic and lexicographer, most famous for A Dictionary of the English Language, often considered one of the greatest acts of scholarship in the English language. Samuel Johnson’s fame was spread by his friend James Boswell’s biography, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is often considered one of the greatest biographies ever written.
The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (17 November 1944) is a television and film producer, famous for creating the show Saturday Night Live. Except for one five year stretch, he has produced every SNL since 1975.
At the trial of God, we will ask:
why did you allow this?
And the answer will be an echo:
why did you allow this?
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky (18 April 1977) is an Ukranian poet who emigrated to America in 1993. This is from his poem A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck from his collection Deaf Republic.
We will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi (11 June 1913 – 3 September 1970) was an American football player and coach, most famous for leading the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships in seven years, three in a row, and including the first two Super Bowls.
