Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

Wynton Marsalis

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

Willow Smith

Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.

Willie Nelson

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

William P. Young

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

William P. Young

I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.

William Penn

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

William Penn

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

William Penn

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

Zig Ziglar

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Zig Ziglar

Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.

Zig Ziglar

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

Zig Ziglar

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Zig Ziglar

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

Zig Ziglar

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zoe Saldana

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

Zell Miller

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Zadie Smith

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

Zadie Smith

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

Zadie Smith

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.