Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Ryan Lochte

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Roy Yamaguchi

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Thomas S. Monson

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

Thomas Sowell

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

Thomas Sowell

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Thomas Sowell

We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.

Thomas Sowell

The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.

Thomas Sowell

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

Thomas Sowell

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

Thomas Sowell

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

Thomas Sowell

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

Robert McKee

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Robert McNamara

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Robert Harris

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

Robert Greene

It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it up and adapt it, to polish it a bit and give it a new aspect. To not violate the reputation you've established but give it a new edge and veneer to show other aspects that people hadn't suspected.

Robert B. Parker

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Robert B. Parker

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Robert Ballard

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Robert Anton Wilson

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

Rob Mariano

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

Ricki Lake

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

Rickie Lee Jones

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Ricky Martin

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Richard Louv

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

Richard M. Nixon

I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

Richard M. Nixon

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

Richard M. Nixon

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

Rian Johnson

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

Rian Johnson

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.