Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Christopher Hitchens

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

Murray Gell-Mann

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Mo Udall

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Mindy Kaling

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Mindy Kaling

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Mike Redmond

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Mike Royko

Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.

Mike Rowe

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

Miguel

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Kirk Douglas

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

Kirk Douglas

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Kirk Cameron

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Kirsten Dunst

I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

Kirsten Dunst

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

Kim Campbell

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Kevin Drum

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Garnett

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.