Giving Quotes

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Getters don't get - givers get.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.