Famous Quotes

"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."

Amy Tan on Amazing

More quotes about Amazing

• "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

  Angelina Jolie on Amazing

• "If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results."

  George S. Patton on Amazing

• "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

  Harry S. Truman on Amazing

• "If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

  Les Brown on Amazing

• "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

  Conan O'Brien on Amazing

More quotes by Amy Tan

• "I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."

• "I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

• "I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."

• "I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

• "I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."