Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Natasha Josefowitz

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth people get an impression of you based both on the content of your message and on the way you deliver it.

Mary Karr

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Ignacio Bunye

This is based on our civil service rules,

James Nichols

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

Thomas Reese

This is based on Catholic social teaching, the concern for the poor, that we should be hospitable to visitors and immigrants. This is not based on partisan politics.

Gale Kaufman

This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they don't.

James E. Faust

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

Eric Flint

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

Jackie Collins

My biggest critics have never read me.

Kofi Annan

If I give the impression we are a world government, we'll get even more critics and our critics will be emboldened,

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Francis Ford Coppola

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Paul Murphy

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.