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.

Evelina Christillin

I can't say but the names given are those of the finalists. Let's surprise the public.

John Leslie

I can't really go and study for three years, so I'll have to get as much on-the-job training as possible. They've given me lots of little tips that might take months to learn, such as how to project my voice.

Mark Waters

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

J. C. Ryle

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.

Midge Decter

been given a sudden glimpse into the foundations of one's house and seen, with horror, that it was utterly infested and rotting away.

Jodi Benson

Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.

Herb Sendek

He's truly on one of those guys who plays to the point where you've got to take him out of the game, because he's given you everything he has.

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Rosecrans Baldwin

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

Roland Barthes

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Roger Scruton

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

Robin McKinley

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

Robin McKinley

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Willard Wigan

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.