Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britt Ekland

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

Britt Ekland

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Brian Lumley

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Brian McKnight

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

Brian Greene

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Brett Somers

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

Brandon Sanderson

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Brandon Sanderson

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

Aretha Franklin

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Ben Parr

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

Ben Okri

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

Barbara Lee

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Ashley Young

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Bashar al-Assad

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Barbara Pym

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.

Barbara Pym

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Augusto Pinochet

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

Augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augusten Burroughs

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Arthur Miller

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

Art Garfunkel

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

Art Modell

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.