Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Greene

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Rebecca De Mornay

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Richard Russo

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Richard Rodriguez

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Robin Gibb

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

Robert Morse

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

Richard Whately

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

Richelle Mead

He froze, and for one moment, we stood locked in time. I could feel the silk of his shirt against my skin and the warmth of his body. The lingering scent of the overpriced cologne he wore floated around me. No smoke for a change. I’d always told him the cologne couldn’t be worth what he spent, but suddenly, I reconsidered. It was amazing.

Richelle Mead

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

Ryan Hall

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

Sandra Cisneros

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Sandra Brown

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

Sandra Lee

Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Robert Wright

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Robert Schumann

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Vincent Nichols

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Will Smith

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

Virginia Woolf

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

Wangari Maathai

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

W. H. Auden

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .

Twyla Tharp

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

Twyla Tharp

You double your intensity with skill.

Twyla Tharp

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.