Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clay Aiken

I really love live performing!

Clay Aiken

Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.

Clayton Christensen

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

D. A. Carson

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

D. H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

Curly Howard

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Conor Oberst

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

What we see is the political premium between $10 and $15 per barrel,

Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Albert Schweitzer

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

Debbie Ford

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

Debbie Ford

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

E. M. Forster

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

Drew Barrymore

Nobdoy is solid and perfect all of the time.

Drew Barrymore

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Drew Barrymore

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Douglas Trumbull

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Douglas MacArthur

Americans never quit.

Don DeLillo

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Dylan O'Brien

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Doug Stanhope

I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

Donald Trump

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Dontrelle Willis

It's not about the money for me.

Dora Russell

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Donald Rumsfeld

Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.

Donald Miller

You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.