Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Wesley Snipes

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Josie Maran

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

Joseph Boyden

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

Kim Smith

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

Kim Jee-woon

Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

Ralph Fiennes

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Raghuram Rajan

We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.

Radhanath Swami

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Selena Gomez

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.

Scarlett Johansson

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

Sharan Burrow

Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

Rufus Wainwright

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

Rod Blagojevich

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Robertson Davies

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Robert Pattinson

I learned that if a relationship is honest, it can last through anything despite all the challenges we have to face and everything that happens around us.

Viswanathan Anand

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

Saul Williams

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

Tim Jackson

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

Tim McDonald

We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

Salli Richardson

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

Russell Page

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

Russell M. Nelson

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

Sam Mendes

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Roy Blunt

One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.

Ron Perlman

I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.

Susan Cain

Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

Sidney Crosby

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?