Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Cogman

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.

Rainbow Rowell

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

Katori Hall

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Ellar Coltrane

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

Lori Wilde

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

Chris Jordan

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Drew Goddard

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Lord Byron

Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.

Victoria Osteen

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Orhan Pamuk

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Dirk Johnson

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk into a locker room and be a part of a good organization. I'm not saying it's keeping me up at night but it's always in the back of your head.

Pixie Lott

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

Terrika Cross

I'm strong. I'm a survivor, and I thank God now everyday for my life.

Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Mike McGlone

Those are just some of the ways NASA is related to everyday life.

Glen Hansard

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Sheryl Krmpotich

That was huge. At one point we were up by 20 (63-43 with 2:42 to play). You know, this team has done a lot of great things this year. We've had our ups and our downs, but it's just a great feeling to be number one.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Pat Morita

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Mark Hing

Most investors put their portfolios together in a haphazard manner and don't have a sound stock selection strategy. They end up with a patchwork portfolio filled with low-quality securities.

David Schwab

It'd be one thing if he's 25 and filled a demographic niche. But the older the demographic you try to reach, the less risky you want to be.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Sam Williams

I was unfamiliar with many of the agencies, ... The interviews filled in a lot of gaps.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

Cecelia Ahern

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Cecelia Ahern

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble.

Cecelia Ahern

I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

Cecelia Ahern

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again...

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Charles Rosser

I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

David Smith

Validation and significance are two very different things. It's very valid as a standard. Whether it's significant is the question.

Dave Morris

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

Mark Shapiro

I want it for us , ... not as any validation for me.

Herbert Marcuse

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.

Pepe Eliaschev

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

Greg McDermott

In a lot of ways it validated our program.

Erich Fromm

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

Raymond Carver

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.