Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abby Cohen

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

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Louis Zamperini

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Lucian

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Bob Sanders

All of those really big hits I remember. I put one on him. I've given people a lot of those.

Mark Pearson

All the political appointees have been given their marching orders.

Eddi Reader

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

Thomas McManus

The market's progress since then (Sept. 21) seems excessive, given the challenging environment.

Chad Cruthis

We talked about it and for our team right now, we had a lack of intelligence. We have a zone offense we've worked on for a month and a half and you saw that whole first half, we couldn't get people to get in the right spots.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Robert Jordan

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Robert Jordan

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

Robert Jordan

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Oprah Winfrey

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Margaret Atwood

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Pope John Paul II

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Phillip Adams

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Clint Eastwood

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

Clint Eastwood

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

Clint Eastwood

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly. I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".