Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

You hear so much just about the danger and the fear and then you come here and you meet just an amazing people. Given just a little chance, and given a little help, this is going to be a great country.

Sarah Rafferty

I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.

Jason Mraz

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.

Jonathan Keltz

I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone.

Melissa Marr

I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.

Atharva Veda

I have become a worshipper of the One Name; the Guru has shown me this amazing wonder.

Doug Aitken

I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.

Jeff Mangum

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

Mike Vogel

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

Ryan Gosling

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Bobby Jones

The fact they jumped out to a 5-0 mark in the conference gives them a lot of confidence. They have some really good players, and they have a legitimate shot at winning this conference. We are having it tough right now with injuries, and we also are a young team. We hope we can give the TV audience a good game to watch.

Mother Teresa

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

Chad Harbach

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

Drew Carey

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

Drew Goddard

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.

Persis Khambatta

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

Patricia Lewis

We opened the doors last year and people came in. All types of people came. All generations. The mariachi band came with two dancers and had the audience participate.

Virginia Postrel

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Tom Clancy

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Christopher McGrath

He'll never be the same as he used to be. He's never going to be able to do the things that he loves again.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Anderson Cooper

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

David Mamet

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Fincher

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

David Fincher

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.