Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Evel Knievel

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.

Theo James

I was in New Zealand and met this girl. Her sister dared me to bungee jump, so I did! It was a spur-of-the-moment decision - I wanted to impress the girl, and it worked! We were in a relationship after that.

Gianfranco Fini

but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

Gian Carlo Menotti

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

Marion Cotillard

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

Joyce Maynard

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

John Whittier

And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something better than she had known

Felix Baumgartner

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Every single series on our network in the last 11 years that has been successful dared to be different, dared to be unusual, unlike anything else on network television. From 'Married with Children' to 'The Simpsons' to 'In Living Color,' 'The X-Files, 'Ally McBeal,' 'King of the Hill,' each of these shows dared to be different and alternative.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives - in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.