Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Bob Newhart

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Cameron Russell

When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.

When Darren gave up his position in Pakistan, he realized he was giving his spot to someone else.

Lela Rochon

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

Leslie Howard

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.

We didn't play very well at all. We gave up a lot of points and a lot of yards.

Brandon Flowers

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

Chris Hemsworth

Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Laurence Housman

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

Tommy Chong

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Tim Hudson

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

Jaromir Jagr

We gave the other team a lot of odd-man rushes. Maybe we are tired and we're making mistakes, but this is not the way you want to go into the playoffs.

We gave them what we thought they wanted.

We gave them too many shots. They had a lot of second and third chances. We need to do a better job limiting them to one shot per possession.

We gave them too many second and third chances.

We gave them too many points on service and hitting errors, but overall the girls played pretty well and I'm pretty proud of them.,

Tomas Vokoun

We gave them too many chances. Power play, 5-on-3, 4-on-3, you name it. Playing back-to-back, we were tired in the third period. They took advantage.

Shawn Horcoff

We gave them three great opportunities to score and that was the difference. It's frustrating.

We gave them some runs. ... You've got to help your pitcher by making some plays.

We gave them some points, but on a scale of one to 10 we played a nine,

We gave them options, and they played the options they way we wanted to.

We gave them everything they could handle. But when you have guys hurt and playing out of position, you do what you can.

Joe Nieuwendyk

We gave them every opportunity with the penalties we took. We can't do that.

Jack Horner

We gave them a specimen. Unfortunately, it was just one leg, ... Now they want more.

Eddie Jordan

We gave them a run for their money, 36 to 5. People talk about the X-factor. Today we had the Z-factor, for zero.

Roseanne Barr

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

William Davies

It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, / And left thee all her lovely hues.