Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

Cary Grant

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Simon Woodroffe

There are bound to be viewers wondering how she can dish out advice, ... But I think she is very ballsy and will come back. You learn very little from success, but you learn a great deal from failure. If I had a small business and wanted some advice, I would ask Rachel.

Gregg Laskoski

We strongly advise everyone to make sure they have a well-charged cell phone when they evacuate. But you should make sure that all the regular maintenance, all the stuff you tend to put off, is taken care of. You don't want to be calling for emergency road service during an evacuation because of a tire.

Jamie Dixon

We stressed getting off to a good start and being ready to go, but my advice didn't go very far.

Suzy Buchholtz

We're in a position where we have some advice to give. We're not counselors. We do a lot of advising. Sometimes, it takes an outsider to say, 'No.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David R. Ellis

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Caroline B. Cooney

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Caitlin Kittredge

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

Caleb Cushing

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Catherine the Great

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...

William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

Charles Stanley

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Spurgeon

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Carl Sagan

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

Bob Woodward

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

African Proverbs

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Frank Herbert

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Katherine Harris

God is the one who chooses our rulers

Larry Jones

You used to spend a lot of your time with a ruler in your hand.

Charles Dickens

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Alan Rickman

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

Chief Joseph

I will speak with a straight tongue.

William Shakespeare

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

William Shakespeare

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

William Shakespeare

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Audre Lorde

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips