Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Kwanten

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

Wayne Dyer

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Jurgen Habermas

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

R. C. Sproul

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Pope Francis

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

Bill Johnson

We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Hanya Yanagihara

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Amy Cuddy

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

Marc Freedman

This investment is generally recommended for higher-income tax brackets,

Ben Kingsley

If people are generous with their information, then the actor can use that information lovingly and respectfully.

Chad Pennington

I'm proud of the response and I'm not surprised. Robin and I received a lot of support while we were here. People were so generous to us and other players here. Once people find out what it's for, they come through. This is a way to give back to the community. People are interested and want to be a part of helping improve quality of life.

Ruth Collins

Oh, my God, it's terrible. She was very generous and charitable, a very lovely person.

Mick Mandl

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

Christian Camargo

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Dick Gephardt

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

David Stewart

There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to know where our money's going.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. Meeting Him, the supreme status is obtained.

Matthew Turnbull

He will then come to our meeting a week later.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Lindsey Graham

In these meetings she has been very guarded.

Anne Coates

I like meeting the people. I'm a theatre person.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

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.

Warren Buffett

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

Warren Buffett

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.