William Carey Jones Quotes

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

William Carey Jones

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• Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Want

• It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Famous

• Cricket is my first love.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Love
  • Cricket
  • First Love

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Free
  • Religious

• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Child
  • Need

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • American
  • Space
  • Picture

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Stock

• I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Relationship
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Different
  • Revolution

• The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Respect
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Joy
  • Thoughts

• There is no way $1.5-million will accomplish all these things on the list.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Accomplish

• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • School
  • Support
  • Summer

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  

  William Carey Jones
  • Christmas
  • Holiday
  • Empty