Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

The payoffs for choosing drama as a way to handle the events of your life are myriad. How about temporarily satisfying, long, go-nowhere conversations that serve to lower the intelligence level of all involved?

David Rabe

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

Pico Iyer

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Ana Layevska

I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

Most ironic is that Europe counts in Ethiopia, a country which depends on European aid, the largest recipient in Africa. Europe could definitely make the difference for democracy in Ethiopia. Instead, current European leaders are choosing to fail it. In doing so, they are not just failing Ethiopians. They are also failing Europe.

I think IBM invented proprietary back in the 80s, but that's not what customers want. They want to have flexibility in choosing a variety of different technologies that they want to deploy.

We did not want to make it about choosing one congregation over another.

Hanna Rosin

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

Suzanne Farrell

When you're choosing nuts, make sure to get them raw and unsalted.

Dave Thomas

One of the reasons for choosing Peace is that it is compliant with Full Retail Contestability (FRC) in Australia.

Funds are choosing to lock in their profits after decent gains recently and more profit-taking will likely occur in coming sessions.

I expect that there still will be difficulties over choosing the prime minister.

I don't think it's really something that the city should be choosing for everyone,

What you're seeing right now is that private equity investors, corporations as well as institutional equity investors are all picking and choosing through equity assets,

Jonathan Levine

He has a gut-level feeling for what's right and what isn't, what will work and what won't. He just has an instinct for choosing when to engage and when not to engage. It's really remarkable.

Max von Sydow

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

With this rigged system, lawmakers are choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their lawmakers.

We're seeing growth every year in the number of people who are choosing to get their refunds a week sooner, right into their banks, saving themselves a trip.

Maynard Webb

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Kathleen Robertson

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

We have informed consumers, and they're choosing to take the mode of transportation that is not only the most enjoyable to them but also the most protective of park resources.

Najib Razak

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Steven Sinofsky

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

Victoria Osteen

Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

Shakira

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

Vint Cerf

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

Martha Beck

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

Origen

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Randy Pausch

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

Javier Bardem

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it.

Carlisle Floyd

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the history-book version we have come to believe.