Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Batali

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Marilyn Manson

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

Mae Whitman

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

Mae West

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

Frederic Chopin

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

Frederic Chopin

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

Frank Norris

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Ocean

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Francois Rabelais

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

George Chapman

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

Christopher Hitchens

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Christopher Hitchens

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Christopher Hitchens

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Gadsden

I give no more paroles to British officers.

Christopher Dodd

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Christopher Fry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christina Milian

We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each other to stay grounded, grow together and for comfort. Our memories growing up are what built our foundation. I think we are proof to never give up. None of us are perfect, and we're okay with making fun of our flaws.

Christina Aguilera

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

Christina Aguilera

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Christina Aguilera

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

Christian Lous Lange

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Christian Louboutin

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Christian Louboutin

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

Chris Rock

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

Chris Rock

When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.

Chris O'Donnell

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

Chris Murray

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

Chris Murray

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.

Chris Murray

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Chris Murray

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.

Chris Matthews

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Chris Hadfield

When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.