Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .

Rita Ora

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

Ray Rice

I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.

Sally Kirkland

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

He taught me to trust in tomorrow.

Victoria Jackson

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

Brandon Routh

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Jane Gardam

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Aristotle

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Daniel Radcliffe

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.

Andy Goldsworthy

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Alberto Giacometti

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

Douglas Adams

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Douglas Adams

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

Douglas William Jerrold

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!