Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

David Bowie

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through...

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Nicolas Cage

It's not something you really read about or see on TV who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppressive dictators around the world. It made me interested in doing the movie, because I thought it was an important topic that might make more people aware of it,

Matt Hasselbeck

It's not something we're hung up on. I'm sure some of the coaches are aware of it. But a lot of our guys are young. They don't remember, and they don't really care.

Kekoa Paulsen

It's not surprising to learn that a landowner would take those steps. There are all kinds of issues that landowners need to be aware of -- liability, for one; health and safety.

Dan Miles

You can't learn if you aren't physically active. The kids' behavior is the biggest change. ... They can control their anger, they are self aware and they are keeping themselves under control.

David Bolland

This is the only development I'm aware of in the Sacramento region that utilizes recycled water.

Rita Moreno

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Sarah Burton

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Sara Blakely

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.