Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gillian Flynn

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

Doris Lessing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Donald Trump

I always feel a bit awkward when it`s time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don`t want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

Francis of Assisi

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Janet Evanovich

Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

Markus Zusak

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

Saint Augustine

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Alan Rickman

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

Alan Moore

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Chinua Achebe

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Buddy Hackett

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Billy Idol

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

Audre Lorde

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Earl Derr Biggers

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.