Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund White

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Russell Baker

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

Wernher von Braun

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Anthony Ricco

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Kelley Armstrong

I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

Norton Juster

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.