Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Osborne

I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I've set for myself. And that's hard to feel - like you're giving your life to something and you can't really do it as well as you want to do it.

Joan Miro

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Jimmy Smits

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Wales

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

Geoffrey Beene

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Garrison Keillor

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Garrison Keillor

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

Garrison Keillor

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Gabriela Sabatini

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

Gabriela Sabatini

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

Francois Fenelon

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

Francois Fenelon

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Francois Fenelon

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Francois Fenelon

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

Francois Fenelon

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Francois Fenelon

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Francois Mauriac

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Frank Abagnale

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Frank Chodorov

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

George Cukor

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

George Clooney

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

George Clooney

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

Gaylord Nelson

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Gayle Forman

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Gary Cole

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

Lord Acton

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You try to give away what you want yourself.