Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

Don Yaeger

Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.

Denis Villeneuve

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

Victoria Justice

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

Clint Eastwood

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Bill Cosby

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

Nick Jonas

I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.

F. Sionil Jose

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

Francois Cluzet

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, to make our own films more modern.

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Gregory Coupet

We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50.

Denis Waitley

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Michael Des

We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.

Jim Parker

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Jacob Tamme

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

John Glenn

I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.

Hans Blix

The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us,

Boris Yeltsin

The patience of the public and of the president is not limitless,

Bernard Barton

Patience wins the race.

Bill Vaughan

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Bill Vaughan

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Robert Browning

The are times when patience proves at fault.

William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes?

William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.