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.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Chris Robinson

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Nathaniel Branden

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Bette Davis

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bernadette Peters

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

Haley Bennett

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

Frank Miller

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Karen Bell

We have a core group of clowns and we're all dealing with the emotions. We have to support each other. We have a strong net that keeps us from falling.

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

Matt Morelock

It was no longer a social instrument. It was now a performance (instrument) by clowns in blackface performing a very racist stage show to a seated audience.

Roger Bart

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

Mark Evans

The kids always like to see the clowns and decorations and horses. It's kind of the old-school rodeo parade. We encourage people to come out and enjoy the hometown event.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Eric Swensen

(The outlook) is fantastic. After this, we know that placing at states is a goal that's within reach.

Cecil Taylor

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Bette Davis

Success only breeds a new goal

Ashton Kutcher

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

Scott Jones

That was huge. We had 23 shots (on goal) tonight, some on target and some not, but hopefully (the goals) will just keep on coming.

Martina Hingis

That would be the goal at the moment, to be able to participate at that level.

Bob Emery

That was a huge goal for us. Their goalie made a nice save, but there was so much on the shot that it left a rebound.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

William Shakespeare

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

William Channing

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

Nic Taunton

I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Stephen Byers

We need to recognize that many people feel they are living in a

Bill Ferris

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

Sally Stohler

I'm sitting in my living room wondering why I have so many clocks.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Robert H. Grubbs

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

David Lord

We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent.

Robert Taylor

Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Tyler Perry

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

Irving Harper

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

Sandy Goldstein

We realized there was a real niche out there.

Bill Cowher

We're proud of the teams of the 1970s. But we have our own niche right now.

Dusty Springfield

It got very well reviewed, ... I don't think it ever sold that much, but it seems to have settled into this niche of respect, which I find very touching.

Ellen Goldstein

There is tremendous competition. Unless you find a niche it is really going to be an uphill climb.

Mike May

It's one of those sports that's sort of a niche activity.

Jamie Dixon

It was a completely unique situation. We talked about that she's got to find out what your niche is and what your strengths are. You've got to sell that.

Amy Froess

We've been playing teams that are taller than us all the time, and we've been winning. We just have to find our niche and get some confidence. If their shooters aren't on from the outside, then I think we have a chance.

Kermit Baker

Firms really niche themselves on a thin slice of remodeling activity.

Peter Bart

There could be no replacement for Army, and no one will replace him, ... His niche and talents are very special.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Constance Marie

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

Peter Steele

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

William Shakespeare

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Mark Campbell

We haven't had any complaints. Tonight will be the first true test.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Mary Rowland

It does really well, and we have tons of different publications.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'