Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Virat Kohli

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Shirley MacLaine

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Neill Blomkamp

I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really like to do that film. But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property.

Ed Orgeron

We didn't play well on the corners, and their receivers made plays we hadn't given up most of the year.

Oscar Wilde

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Atom Egoyan

unwarranted response given the story it's telling and the way it needed to be told.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Merritt Patterson

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Maisie Williams

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

Stan Musial

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.

Steve Sanger

Total has a great nutrition story, ... We need to offer variety and taste appeal.

Josh Silver

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Jim Calhoun

We went to see 'Glory Road' the other night and it was a great film.

Chris Scelfo

Though our wins and losses are not where we wanted them to be, to have 100 people see this season through is a great testament to their character.

Van Chancellor

Unbelievable. Oh, boy, she looks great. She's come back, lost weight, (is) in great shape, looks good.

Rob Schmidt

Twenty-one (points) is a great performance, but other guys stepped up.

Sophie Thompson

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

Taylor Swift

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

Taylor Swift

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Stacie Orrico

I've always gotten along with guys better.

Stephen Strasburg

I try to execute pitches and get guys out.

Rick Riordan

I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble

Rick Riordan

Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Rick Riordan

A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.

Takeo Spikes

And the most important thing at the end of the day is that we stay together as one in relaying the information to the rest of the guys.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Frank A. Clark

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

M. Night Shyamalan

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

Lorenz Hart

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Jimmy Carter

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Emily Dickinson

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.