Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Immanuel Kant

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Humphrey Bogart

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Samuel Johnson

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Ravi Zacharias

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game.

Ricardo Zuniga

We are treating these people with the dignity and respect they deserve. This is not cargo; this is someone's mother.

Jon Voight

I think he taught people the dignity of life and the dignity going into that last phase, toward death,

Fulton J. Sheen

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

John Milton

Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Rowan Williams

These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom,

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Diana Wynne Jones

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Elie Wiesel

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Dale Carnegie

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

Cynthia Nixon

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Cory Monteith

I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

Cory Booker

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.