Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Italo Calvino

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Joyce Banda

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Kylie Minogue

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

E. P. Thompson

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

Erich Bergen

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

Kevin Brady

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.

Jon Gruden

We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion

She helped us cut through all the red tape and convinced the syndicate that this was a good thing,

Most people have made up their minds about him one way or the other, but there's still a persuadable group in the middle who can be convinced that he's doing a good job, who are not at this point convinced.

We're a 100 percent convinced by his work. There's no need to wait until the end of the season.

J. Taylor

We were convinced he was guilty then, ... We just couldn't prove it.

She's convinced it's him and the FBI is running like it's him.

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Eric Ripert

I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

Lauren Stamile

I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

David Dreier

We are going to win tomorrow. I am convinced we are on track for victory,

Matthew Underwood

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

Andy Behrman

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

We set a goal of being in the top 10. A lot of people thought that might be a lofty goal, but we're convinced we can develop into a good football team.

Greg Wise

I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

Atom Egoyan

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Tom Weston-Jones

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

Michael Kirby

We are not convinced that a miscarriage of justice occurred in this case.