Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Victoria Osteen

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

Bethany Hamilton

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives.

Bethany Hamilton

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

Bernard Berenson

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

That was great for our guys. We really needed some positive energy.

We have to use this opportunity to support and to encourage the support of people (to get) back to their places of origin so we can help rebuild their lives.

Marco Rubio

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

We have a gap right now with a lot of umpires with great experience and then a lot of young umpires. It would be nice to start filling that void in the middle. And we really encourage women to participate.

Andrea Jung

We invite our representatives to every mall kiosk opening. We try to encourage the fact that this is sort of flagship Avon.

Maajid Nawaz

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

Hugh Jackman

I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.'

Judy did nothing that the New York Times did not want her to do. They encouraged her to stay in jail.

W. S. Gilbert

We are obviously encouraged that a market like this could be opening up for us.

We focus on what they do well to encourage them, but we also tell them what needs improvement.

Andrew Luck

I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day.

Joan Chen

I won't ever encourage this temptress to grow. I don't give her any opportunity in my life, but I'm sure it's there. I understand her.

I tell them to be ready for anything. I encourage them to stay focused.

I tell the girls that they can't make it if they don't shoot it. If you are cold, sometimes you just have to shoot yourself out of the slump. I encourage them to shoot. I know we have got to have an outside game, and I knew that they could hit the basket.

We encourage walkers and hikers to come out and try it. Don't be intimidated by the competitive people. You get a good workout in and go places you've never gone in snowshoes. A lot of people who snowshoe never get off the trail. You may never do it on your own. In this organized race situation, people can do that and not be intimidated.

We encourage visitors to do this to recreate the atmosphere.

We encourage these kinds of initiatives. We think they're necessary to protect the sanctity of marriage.

We encourage the kids to keep those jobs because there's not many places around here where you can make $10 an hour.

We encourage the filmmakers to do this and we want to see more of it. Ultimately we want students to see what the industry is all about so they can further their interest and maybe study it in college.

Jim Craig

We encourage team parties and in-house tournaments, too.

We encourage people to yell, scream or fight back. Oftentimes, it scares people away.

We encourage people to use that phone line if they know of or suspect fraud, ... we don't get a real high percentage of good leads from those calls.

We encourage people to network with the employers.

We encourage our students to write; this is as important as the reading.