Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

Keith O'Brien

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

Keith Richards

I only get ill when I give up drugs

Kit Harington

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Kim Harrison

What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept

Kim Harrison

Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue." "Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)

Kim Harrison

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

Kevin Powers

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

Ken Blanchard

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ken Blanchard

What we give our attention to, grows.

Kazimir Malevich

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

At halftime I told them we probably didn't want to shoot 22 treys in the second half. But we also had to remember that's what they were giving us.

Martin Sorrell

a terribly invidious position by people giving him an earache about this.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Michael Irvin

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

Michael Irvin

Look up, get up and don't ever give up.

Michael Emerson

I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

Michael Emerson

What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.

Michael Emerson

If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

Michael Azerrad

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

Michael Badnarik

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Ray Bradbury

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Ray Bradbury

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

Ray Bradbury

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Randy Pausch

Get a feedback loop and listen to it... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.

Randy Pausch

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

Ramin Bahrani

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

Ramsey Clark

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Rand Paul

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

Rand Paul

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Rand Paul

I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.