Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Paolini

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

Christopher McQuarrie

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."

Christopher McQuarrie

You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.

Christopher McCandless

Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.

Christopher Moore

We Ask the Gods for Answers and They Give Us Questions

Christopher Moore

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

Anson Dorrance

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

Anne Bronte

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

Angelina Jolie

There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

Andrew Cohen

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

Andrew Carnegie

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

Andrew Carnegie

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

Andrew Carnegie

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Andrew Carnegie

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

Andrew Carnegie

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Andrew Carnegie

I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

Andrew Carnegie

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Andrea Tantaros

Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.

Amy Alcott

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Aly Raisman

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

Alveda King

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

Anthony de Mello

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

Anthony de Mello

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

Anna Kournikova

Well, I'm playing for the fans so whenever they come and ask for autographs I always try to give it to everybody because I'm out there for the people.

Angela Cartwright

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Lansbury

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.

Angela Lansbury

The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

Amy Hempel

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Amy Chua

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Amy Chua

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Alvar Aalto

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Alma Gluck

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.