Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Jane Austen

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Jane Austen

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Jamie Moyer

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

Jamie Oliver

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

Jamie Lee Curtis

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

Jami Gertz

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Jason Blum

The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.

Jason Blum

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

Jason Bateman

I've always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of "well, we haven't heard that much" or "news hasn't changed so it must be going away".

Janet Suzman

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

Janet Frame

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

Janet Jackson

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

Jane Seymour

The best gift you can give someone is a part of your soul.

Jane Smiley

People with good intentions never give up!

Gary L. Francione

Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

Miley Cyrus

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

I'm all for giving people a second chance, but not on our dime. I wanted to see him go through a year and see his character. So far, he's been much more than I anticipated. I'm very, very pleased with him so far.

Music is my way of sharing my story, of giving back, and hopefully offering hope.

Adam Goldberg

Obviously, it's not a performance that we're proud of. But nobody's going in the tank, or giving up. We're going to come out next week and have a lot of our problems fixed.

Nobody was giving me any hope. Every office I walked out of, I was in tears.

I don't think it would make much sense if the money has to come from development. It's like stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.

Priscilla Presley

I have a terrible time giving interviews, it's so much more a sensitive issue for me because I am so protective of Lisa Marie and of her father.

If I said to you I'd solved the hard problem, you wouldn't be able to guess whether it would be a formula, a model, a sensation, or a drug, ... What would I be giving you?

Dwyane Wade

I feel good. We have a three-game winning streak and guys are playing good. Shaq and myself are getting into the flow. It is giving us confidence.

I feel like I'm giving a little something back.

Ron Wilson

I didn't like the way we were giving up goals in the third period. We need to show more poise, but our offense was there as it has been for the last three games.

I don't know why they're giving up the sacks, or what the mood is that the guys are going through, ... But hopefully they'll give up 20 this weekend to us because I need my first sack of the season. That's what I'm looking for.

Jan Ullrich

I am disappointed today, of course. It was actually going well until the rain. But I have a good team and we are not giving up.

Tessa Jowell

I am giving local authorities the power to run licensing regimes in their own areas. They have the local knowledge, the know-how and are accountable to the local electorate.

Ben Elton

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.