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.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Abdallah II of Jordan

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Abdallah II of Jordan

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Jeff Bagwell

Towards the end of my career, I didn't want an opportunity like this to go by.

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.

Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Billie Holiday

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

Bill Hybels

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

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.

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,

Mark Thompson

It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

Padgett Powell

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.