Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Rose Byrne

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Samuel Morse

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Samuel Johnson

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Yasser Arafat

Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

Richelle Mead

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Paul Lynde

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Sally Forman

I was interested in stepping out as a woman in philanthropy because I know that there are lots of powerful and generous women in the community and it gives us a common cause, which is schools. We show that we have strength and influence.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Frank Penela

Just spray and just do the common sense things you'd do at this time of the year.

Platen

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Todd Spencer

I suspect that is going to be a pretty common situation for the guys who worked the port.

Wang Guoliang

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

Joseph Cheng

He is there to promote common interests between the two countries and to try to reduce the 'China threat' image. This is a very serious challenge.

Thomas Piketty

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.