Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Walter Cronkite

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

William Blum

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Werner Erhard

So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.

Werner Herzog

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

Weegee

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

Wayne Thiebaud

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

Walid Jumblatt

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Walid Jumblatt

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

Wallace Shawn

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Walker Percy

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Samuel Richardson

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Samuel Beckett

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

Samuel Fuller

If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Samuel Goldwyn

Ill give you a definite maybe.

Samuel Beckett

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

Sally Ride

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

Salman Rushdie

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

Ryan Sheckler

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

Ryan Seacrest

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

Ryan Reynolds

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

Ryan Reynolds

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

Wesley Snipes

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

Wendie Malick

Every time you get something, give something away.

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

Wangari Maathai

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occur…so, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace…those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Wangari Maathai

Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Wangari Maathai

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Joss Stone

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

Jostein Gaarder

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

Joseph Jefferson

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.