Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do.

Clarence Clemons

God will give you no more than you can handle,

Danny McBride

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Daniel Defoe

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Actors should never give interviews.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Daniel Dennett

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

David Foster

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster Wallace

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

David Foster Wallace

American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

David Antin

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

David Attenborough

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

David Attenborough

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

David Attenborough

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Donatella Versace

Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

Don Herold

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.

Don McLean

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Dominique McElligott

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

Douglas Conant

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Douglas Adams

Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.

Doris Roberts

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

Doris Roberts

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Doris Lessing

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Dale Carnegie

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

Dale Carnegie

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Craig McCaw

I don't give investment advice.

Craig Newmark

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.