Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Ambrosini

Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

Diane Kruger

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

Diane Kruger

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Justin Welby

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Anatole Broyard

She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.

Brad Goreski

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!

Charles de Gaulle

I cannot prevent the French from being French

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Al Sharpton

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Anton Chekhov

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Kathy Griffin

Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

Gerald R. Ford

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Jacki Weaver

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Jeremy Lin

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

Seth Godin

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Dean Rusk

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

C. S. Forester

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

Carl Jung

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

Denzel Washington

Thank God in advance for what's already yours.

Bob Balaban

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Edward Leigh

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

Belle Boyd

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Charles Barkley

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.