Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucian

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Louise Jameson

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

Louise Jameson

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

Loretta Devine

I am so grateful and honored to be nominated. Working on Grey's Anatomy for the past few seasons has been a blessing and I have loved developing the character, Adele. I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to work with Shonda Rhimes and I want to thank her for keeping my character alive for all of these seasons.

Lord Byron

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Malachy McCourt

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

Maggie Smith

I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

Maggie Smith

I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

Joe Vitale

Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles.

John Cage

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

The L.M.D.C. is grateful for your willingness to share your ideas in this important effort.

James Taylor

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

James McGreevey

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

James McGreevey

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Ellen Pompeo

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

Ellen Page

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

Edie Falco

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

Henri Nouwen

Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.

Henri Nouwen

I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.

Hattie McDaniel

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

Greg Bear

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

John Malkovich

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

John Locke

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Jim Lehrer

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

George Lucas

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

There are many in the group who say it should be called the Grateful Moms.

Dalia Mogahed

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

David Gemmell

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

David Boreanaz

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

David Bowie

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.