Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Marion Cotillard

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

Joyce Maynard

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

Peter Roth

Every single series on our network in the last 11 years that has been successful dared to be different, dared to be unusual, unlike anything else on network television. From 'Married with Children' to 'The Simpsons' to 'In Living Color,' 'The X-Files, 'Ally McBeal,' 'King of the Hill,' each of these shows dared to be different and alternative.

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Gianfranco Fini

but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Felix Baumgartner

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives - in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Bill Gates

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

John Gibbons

We're moving in the right direction. We filled some needs and now we need to go out there and see how good we are.

Corey Miller

It's filled with water from the Hudson River, and we have to shake it up.

Ben Amerson

They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.

Sam Allardyce

They (Senegal) filled him with pain killers to get him to play and we might have to pay the price.

Shannon Cuesta

They send me an application. Me and my husband said one small prayer, we filled it out, sent it in. And then next thing you know we got the house. Oh my God, we was screaming.

Mike Soule

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Rokia Traore

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Steve Anderson

There was hardly any rain in November, but Mother Nature likes to have things in balance, so she's making up for lost time.

Ingo Steuer

No questions please. We have hardly been able to train.

John Majdoch

These days, the witches are hardly old crones with twisted noses. They've got fishnets and you'd just want to jump in their cauldrons.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Tom Rosenstiel

While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.

Joe Gordon

You can tell he's uncomfortable and in a lot of pain. He can hardly do anything.

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

O. Singh

Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.

Brendan Shanahan

As much as we're known for our goal-scoring, we're very strong defensively, so I think that we can do the same to them and stifle their offense.

Rudy Giuliani

All of us will miss him at Yankee Stadium, ... We were all uplifted for having known him.

Tommy Johnson

It's a serious problem from our standpoint. We wish we'd known about it sooner.

Benjamin Franklin

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

Lucas Piatt

This is the 'put up or shut up' opportunity. We have to do it now, or Pittsburgh will be known for one project that never got off the ground. We need to stop talking about it.

Tim Baldwin

It wasn't something that was known to us.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Paul Simon

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told.

Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Stanley Kunitz

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

John Steinbeck

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?