Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Abraham Lincoln

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Abraham Lincoln

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Anna Sui

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Anita Baker

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

Angie Stone

Many artists give up after a while.

Angie Stone

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

Angie Stone

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

Andy Grammer

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

Andy Gibb

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

Andy Grove

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Andy Goldsworthy

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Andrew Miller

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Andrew Mason

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Amy Lowell

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Ally Carter

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Ally Carter

i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep

Allen Toussaint

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

Allen Ginsberg

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

Alison Weir

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

Alison Moyet

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Alison Gopnik

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,

Alison McGhee

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Alicia Machado

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

Ann Druyan

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Brashares

Luck never gives; it lends.

Ann Brashares

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Ann Brashares

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

Ann Coulter

The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

Ann Coulter

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

Andrzej Wajda

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

Andy Garcia

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.