Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Vincent Nichols

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Will Smith

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

Wangari Maathai

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Wilma Rudolph

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Yuan T. Lee

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

Kel Mitchell

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

James Iha

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

Lamar Odom

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

R. Lee Ermey

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

Carmen Ejogo

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

Mindy Kaling

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Wislawa Szymborska

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

William Hurt

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

Will Arnett

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.