Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Adams

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

Ringo Starr

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

Rihanna

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

Rihanna

It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

Rick Atkinson

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

Rick Astley

'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

Richie Sambora

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

Tim Pawlenty

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

Tim McGraw

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

Tim Allen

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

Thomas Szasz

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Reggie Bush

Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

Reggie Watts

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Red Buttons

I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.

Red Buttons

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

Robert Bourassa

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Robert Bringhurst

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Robert Boyle

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

Tom Shadyac

As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

Tom Izzo

Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.

Tom Holt

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Tom Hodgkinson

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Tom Hodgkinson

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Toni Morrison

How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

Toni Morrison

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Toni Morrison

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Tom Stoppard

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Tom Stoppard

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Tom Stoppard

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

Tom Glazer

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

Tom Hanks

I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.

Tom Hanks

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.