Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Owen

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities,

Clive Owen

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

Clint Eastwood

I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

Clint Eastwood

What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

Daphne Koller

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Dusty Baker

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

Drew Henson

Players get a window of opportunity. Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.

Duane G. Carey

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

Andre Gide

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

Amy Hill

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

Ann Romney

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

Ann Patchett

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.

Angela Braly

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Angela Bassett

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

Anatoly Karpov

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

Anne Graham Lotz

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

Anne Hathaway

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things ...

Ann Aguirre

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Anchee Min

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

Chuck Palahniuk

When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

Christopher Walken

Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.

Christopher Walken

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

Angelina Jolie

I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

Andrea Tantaros

You also need to show a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to impropriety. That's one of the things, again, that Republicans left on the table as a missed opportunity.

Alveda King

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Anne Sweeney

The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

Amy Hempel

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Anna Deavere Smith

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

Andrew Taylor

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Andrew Tan

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

Andrew Shue

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have.

Andrew Shue

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

Andrew Lo

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.