Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Stanley Milgram

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

Stanley Kubrick

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

Stanley Fish

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Stanley Kunitz

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

Stephenie Meyer

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

Stephenie Meyer

=> When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. => Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. => It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

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

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.

Thomas Harris

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

Thomas Hobbes

The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

Thomas Hobbes

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.

Tim Walker

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

Tim Cook

An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

Thomas Ligotti

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Thomas Jefferson

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Thomas Goodwin

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

Thomas Goodwin

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

Thomas Beecham

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

Woody Allen

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

Woody Allen

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

Woody Allen

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.