Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

Mahesh Acharya

There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.

Paul Rice

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

Alan Ladd

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Charlotte Bronte

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

Charles Dudley Warner

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Fidel Castro

We shall always be grateful for that gesture,

Tom Hardy

I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'

Richard G. Scott

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dianne Wiest

I've been grateful for what comes along.

David Kim

If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Abby Wambach

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Lee Kuan Yew

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

Marty Hurney

We're still going over the film. The players aren't even back yet, so we haven't even started those kinds of discussions yet.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Carol Mann

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

Carol Mann

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

Carl Everett

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Agnes Smedley

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Alan Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Shepard

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Carol Shields

And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

C. S. Lewis

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

C. S. Lewis

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

C. S. Lewis

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Manny Acta

We have so many stars that the toughest part is getting our roster down to 30 players.

Aaron Sorkin

There are no Asian movie stars

Alan Sillitoe

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

Alan Ladd

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.