Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Evan Dando

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

Ernest Hemingway

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

Florence Welch

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Flavor Flav

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

Flannery O'Connor

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Brian Tracy

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Jane Fonda

If I can change, anybody can change.

Brent Weeks

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Aristophanes

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Antonio Porchia

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Rick Nielsen

Everything works if you let it

Stephenie Meyer

It Will Be As If I Never Existed

Stephen Colbert

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Thomas Haden Church

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.