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.

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,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Antonin Scalia

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

Eileen collins

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Dionne Warwick

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Carice van Houten

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Brian Eno

I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

Bootsy Collins

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

Billy Casper

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

Cindi Measles

Six have pled guilty already. There's two left to go through.

Gene Weingarten

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

Patty Onderko

I don't know how many parents are actually doing it, in the midst of all the other things parents have to do. We haven't written about it because we don't want them to feel guilty or pressured.

Bruno Mars

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who blushes is already guilty.

David Blunkett

I'm guilty of a mistake and I'm paying the price of it,

Terry Goodkind

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan