Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Eric Swensen

I could not be happier with the way things turned out here. We're sending two hard-working guys to the finals, and the guys who are in consolations have given everything they have here.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jack Kvancz

I have given them permission to talk to Karl.

Paul Jewell

I don't know why he's given off-side, it's not even close.

Casey FitzRandolph

He doesn't like to lose. And he was given a gift, a motor like the rest of us don't have. When we hit the wall, we hit the wall. We just lose function. But he just doesn't do that.

Wendell Berry

We live the given life, and not the planned.

Charles Keating

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Mark Caine

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Mark Caine

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Orlando Bloom

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

George Jessel

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Sydney Smith

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Douglas Rushkoff

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

Douglas Rushkoff

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

Donald E. Westlake

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Donald Barthelme

Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

Don DeLillo

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

Donald Tsang

In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.

Donatella Versace

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Douglas Brinkley

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.