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.

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.

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Eddie Fierek

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

Liberty Bailey

The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.

Bill Meadows

The senator from Alaska announced that he will also take advantage of the suffering people of the Gulf Coast by tying badly needed relief funds to the speculative revenues in his drilling plan.

Jason Whittle

The snap count, it's an advantage. When you go to the silent count, you lose that advantage. It's a good little amount of time. You've got to look at the ball, and it costs you split-seconds. It's even tougher for the tackles, because they're lined up way out there.

Frank Busch

The team sort of caught fire. I think we took advantage of just about everything we could today.

Don Carter

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

Ron Watson

One advantage I thought we had was with our size. When Ryan fouled out, we became vulnerable and they took advantage of it.

Ellen Gerton

On defense it was just a couple of missed marks and opportunities Montrose took advantage of.

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.