Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Renier Gonzalez

We know each other pretty well by now. He's a real nice guy.

Thomas Hutchinson

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Dmitry Medvedev

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Daymond John

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

bell hooks

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Abraham Verghese

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Anita Ekberg

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

E. O. Wilson

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.