Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dani Shapiro

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

Dani Shapiro

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

Dani Shapiro

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Daisaku Ikeda

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Daisaku Ikeda

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Daisaku Ikeda

One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

Daisaku Ikeda

Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.

Aaliyah

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

We're the problem, not the deer. We're not only moving into their arena, we're encouraging them to be there. Critters are adaptable. They need food, shelter and water. If you provide it, they'll come.

John Goodman

We're talking about moving to a world where individuals would own their insurance.

Billy Graham

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Billy Graham

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

Billy Graham

OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.

Billy Graham

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

Meryl Streep

You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

Meryl Streep

I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.

Coleman Young

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Colin Angle

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

Colin Greenwood

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Colin Farrell

I hadn't really met Colin [Farell]. It's really weird to say: 'Oh, hello, I'm Kate...I'm Colin.. shall we?' That's a bit strange. Len was fine with it. We've gone through this experience with Scott Speedman before on the first Underworld move. It was our little version of swinging. We survived that.

Colin Firth

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

Dante Alighieri

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

Dante Alighieri

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Dan Shaughnessy

Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

Dan Scanlon

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

Dan Simmons

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Dan Rather

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Dan Quayle

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Dan Gable

When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

Columbus Short

I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

Daphne Oz

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

Danielle Steel

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.