Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Attenborough

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Anthony Hope

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Ann Voskamp

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

Andy Roddick

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Amanda Hocking

I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.

Amanda Palmer

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Annie Dillard

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Annie Dillard

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Orwell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Chrissie Fit

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

Chris Pratt

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.

Chris Johnson

Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.

George Ripley

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

Gene Simmons

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

George Will

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

George Will

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Jean Renoir

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Jean Pigozzi

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

George Bernard Shaw

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

George Bernard Shaw

Money is a most important thing in the world.

Gale Anne Hurd

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

Fredrik Bajer

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.