Giving Quotes

• I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Writing
  • Needs

• I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

  

  John M. Ford
  • Up
  • Book
  • Lost

• Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Stupidity
  • Childishness

• I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Kings

• If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Giving

• You know how sometimes you're talking to people who love you and give you unconditional love, and you say, "But you know what? Let me back up. I forgot to say . . ."You can do that, right? You don't hesitate and say, "Oh my God! I forgot to say that!". You just speak! And you say it all, until you have nothing more to say. And that's your first draft. It's done.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Done
  • Sometimes

• I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Kind
  • Computer
  • Mail

• The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feelings

• The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Men
  • Positive

• A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Hurt

• Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Up
  • Giving Up
  • Consecration

• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • People
  • Life
  • Marketing

• If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • World
  • Important
  • Path

• Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Book
  • Mean
  • Hands

• By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Giving

• English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Purpose
  • Language
  • Intellectual

• The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Husband
  • Immigration
  • Married

• Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Study
  • Training
  • Dog

• I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Opportunity
  • City
  • Amazing

• Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.

  

  William Melmoth
  • Conversation
  • Flaws
  • Faculty

• As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Capitalism
  • Businessman
  • Frank

• Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

  

  Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • Good
  • God
  • Moving

• Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

  

  Martha MacIsaac
  • Parents
  • Giving
  • Car

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