Famous Quotes & Sayings

Owen Wilson

The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

Owen Wilson

I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Ovid

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

Ovid

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Otis Rush

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

P. C. Cast

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

P. C. Cast

I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring you. Throw off the shackles of your distant goddess and come to me. Be my love, truly, in body as well as soul and I will give you the world!

P. C. Cast

If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble

Paul McCartney

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

Patti Stanger

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

Percy Ross

He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.

Paullina Simons

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

Paullina Simons

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

Paul Valery

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Paul Valery

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

Paul Valery

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Paul Valery

A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

Paul Twitchell

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Tsongas

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Volcker

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Paul Tudor Jones

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

Paul Wellstone

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Meher Baba

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Meher Baba

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

Meher Baba

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.

Meher Baba

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Mary McLeod Bethune

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

Mary Oliver

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

Marty Nemko

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

Martin Cruz Smith

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Buber

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.