Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Miller

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

Donald Miller

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Donald Miller

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

Donald Miller

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Donald Miller

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing.

Donald Miller

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Donald Miller

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Donald Miller

I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

Donald Miller

...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

Don Nickles

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

Don Nickles

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

Don Nickles

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Don Henley

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Dusty Springfield

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Dwayne Johnson

Creating things I think, especially as an actor - wanting to bring to the table things that have never been done before, but also making sure they're of high quality and not having a fear.

Dwayne Johnson

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

Dwayne Johnson

I don't worry about overexposure [in work], I think it's important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

Colleen Atwood

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

Colleen Atwood

I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

Colleen McCullough

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

Claudia Rankine

I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, "What's wrong with me?" and begin to ask the question, "What's wrong with this place that I'm in?"

Claudia Rankine

I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.

Claudia Rankine

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives from one body to another. It becomes the thing in between the two bodies.

Claudia Rankine

One of the things that I think about is: How do you make moments that float, transparent? Moments that could just float away. How do you make a body accountable for its language, its positioning? Why not make a body accountable for its language?

Claudia Rankine

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

Claudia Rankine

I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

Claudia Rankine

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

Claudia Rankine

I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

Clare Bowen

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Boothe Luce

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Clare Boothe Luce

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

Clare Boothe Luce

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

Claude Brown

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.