Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Elbert Hubbard

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

William Wordsworth

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

Deepak Chopra

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

Ben Walker

We are moved by the community's overwhelming generosity to support hurricane victims.

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Charles Spurgeon

Giving is true loving.

Alan Bleasdale

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Al Yankovic

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Adam Lambert

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

David Cassidy

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.

Marya Mannes

performance is an act of faith.