Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Moran

It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

H. G. Wells

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

Jean de la Bruyere

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Jean de la Bruyere

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean de la Bruyere

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean de la Bruyere

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Jean Anouilh

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

Jayna Hefford

It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

Jay-Z

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

Jay-Z

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Jay Roach

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

Jay Chiat

Taking risks gives me energy.

Jay Leno

BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

Jay Leno

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

Jay Leno

Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president. ... He might have to give his Blackberry because of security reasons. Because they're easy to hack into. In fact, when Obama heard he might have to give it up, he said, 'OMG! WTF?' I mean, he couldn't believe it.

Carly Fiorina

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

Buzz Aldrin

Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

Bryan Cranston

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

Bruno Mars

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

Bruno Mars

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

James Heckman

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

James Heckman

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

James Hilton

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

James Ellis

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

James Dyson

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

James Dobson

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

Kristin Chenoweth

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.

Kristin Hannah

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Klaus Schulze

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.