Famous Quotes & Sayings

Van Morrison

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

Ursula Andress

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

Upton Sinclair

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

Tyrese Gibson

God will NEVER give YOU something SOMEBODY ELSE is supposed to have

Tyra Banks

I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.

Twiggy

I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

Twyla Tharp

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Twyla Tharp

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Twyla Tharp

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Tristan Bernard

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

Tristan Bernard

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

Vladimir Putin

Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom

Vladimir Putin

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

Vladimir Putin

The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

William H. Gass

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them

William Gurnall

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

William Goldman

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

William Baldwin

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

William Ames

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Arthur Ward

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

William Arthur Ward

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

Wilferd Peterson

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

Stephenie Meyer

I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one.

Stephenie Meyer

He was giving up on keeping me alive, letting nature–or rather mob justice–take its course. When he returned, and I was dead, he wouldn't hold anyone responsible. He would not mourn. All this I could hear in those three words.

Stephenie Meyer

Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

Stephen Chow

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Stephen Chbosky

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

Stephen Chbosky

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

Stella Adler

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Sparky Anderson

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Sonia Sotomayor

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

Sonia Sotomayor

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

Sophie Kinsella

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.