Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Chuck Palahniuk

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Alma Guillermoprieto

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Anne Sexton

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

Bob Dylan

What drives me to you, drives me insane.

Bill Hader

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Eckhart Tolle

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Rumi

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

S. E. Hinton

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

Veronica Roth

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

Suzanne Collins

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Stephen King

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

Mike Tyson

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Christopher Fry

I sometimes think/ His critical judgement is so exquisite/ It leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

David Wallace

Yuppies, I guess, and younger intellectuals, whatever. These are the people pretty much all the younger writers I admire are writing for, I think.

Ellen McLaughlin

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Shay Mitchell

I didn't realize how many actresses have tons of extensions. Their hair is still pretty, but it blew my mind to find that out. I admire the girls who switch it up a lot like Rihanna. But I also love Gisele Bundchen because she found a style that works and never changes it.

Rod Barnes

Dwayne was close to his brother, but he's handled himself. He has stayed strong. I admire the guy because there's no way I could've gone through what he's gone through.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Berenice Marlohe

I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience.