Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Waters

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

I have given them permission to talk to Karl.

Laurence Olivier

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Paul Jewell

I don't know why he's given off-side, it's not even close.

Ruth Rendell

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

Joel Salatin

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Bob Weir

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Frank Crowninshield

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Oscar Levant

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Conor Oberst

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.

Albert Brooks

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

Hari Kondabolu

I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

Dave Sim

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

Dan Davis

Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

David Lawrence

I think it encompasses a value that the legislature has given to the transparency of government operations, to help people understand what their government is doing and why.

I think it is symbolic of solidarity and what Powder Ridge means to our community. Once in a while in your life, you are given the opportunity to do something to help out someone else and do the right thing.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Patrick Jones

He is still in limbo. We have not been given any information formally of what the problem is.

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

has given me a more positive outlook about the growth of my business.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Katori Hall

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

Today is all about downgrades. This has given a negative tone to the market.

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

Harry Redknapp

Gus has given him a great reference and talked him up so he might be worth a go.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

He said, if he were Grasso he would have given the money back,

John Davidson

He's always given of his time. He's always tried to do the right thing. Going to Italy, I think this thing may become a big story over there if people want to make it a big story. Otherwise, it shouldn't.