Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suchet

The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.

C. S. Lewis

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C. S. Lewis

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

C. S. Lewis

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Catullus

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

Carrie Underwood

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Bethany Hamilton

My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.

Ashton Kutcher

Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

Bertrand Russell

Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

Idina Menzel

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Jane Seymour

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Mark Dahlberg

That was incredible when I got my mail. There were tons of envelopes.

Don Silver

That was the start of an incredible year,

Ray Winstone

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

Randy West

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

James Gandolfini

It does feel like the end this time. You learn so much about success, money and celebrity. It's been an incredible life lesson.

Dan Gonzalez

I thought it was a pretty incredible seminar.

Kirk Jowers

I think this is an incredible resource for voters to look at, but they do need to look at it with some perspective.

Bill Hader

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

Mavis Staples

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Ben Stroud

I think Jefferson will be right up there with what we saw (in Salt Lake City). I'm not sure about Florida, but I think on paper, they should be as good.

Rick Comley

I thought Jeff was really sharp, and the puck is starting to go for us.

S. Hughes

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp; they were on the money.

Tracy McGrady

I would have griped about (being taken out) because we were playing so well. We wanted to win this game. I was really going to talk (coach Jeff Van Gundy) into leaving me out there, even though they wanted to keep my minutes down.

John Young

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Wayne Newton

uses (Kyle) as an inspiration. He says when he thinks about Kyle, 'I haven't got any problems.' Kyle is an inspiration to people, but he may not know it.

Brian Cashman

We've got to surround Kyle with a lot more in the bullpen.

Lorraine Randall

Kyle was great. He was my only living child.

Larry Coker

Kyle seems to be doing fine. Everything's positive there.

Gregg Williams

Kyle Orton was playing better than any of the quarterbacks,

Lovie Smith

Kyle needs to go through a situation like that, ... From the way I see it, he'll come back stronger from it.

Micah Roberts

Kyle is probably going to be somewhere around the top 10 most of the day.

Brian Tate

Kyle had a remarkable race in the mass start classic. He started in the 57th pin position, which is toward the back of the pack.

Brad Jackson

Kyle can really shoot. He doesn't do it a lot, but he can make shots.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Francis Bacon

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self

Amitabh Bachchan

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Robbie Loomis

This is just another step toward what we want to do at Petty Enterprises. We keep trying to do it every day and keep getting better and better.

Tom Petty

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Nancy Cartwright

Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere story

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.