Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Gillian Anderson

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Mark Gottfried

We wanted to get more than that. With our team, it's like putting our finger in a dike. You plug one hole, another one opens. Tonight it was rebounding.

Fred Smoot

We're not pointing the finger at nobody. (The offense) puts three points on the board, we should win the game.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Duane Schwab

We've held teams to 54.8 points per game, and we're pretty proud of that. This team has really come together.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Melanie Gruer

I would just say it should not come as a surprise to people that she held views on public policy prior to being appointed,

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Islam Karimov

The trial will ... be held in mid-September, on September 20,

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Donna Stiteler

These were not abused animals. They are affectionate. They come to you. They love to be handled.

Robert Brown

I see the whole design, / I, who saw power, see now love perfect too.

William Shatner

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

Steven R. McQueen

I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Harry S Truman

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

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.

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.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

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.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.