Famous Quotes & Sayings

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Eric Ripert

I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

Susannah Grant

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

Sakshi Tanwar

I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

Michael Kirby

We are not convinced that a miscarriage of justice occurred in this case.

Lorraine Adams

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

Calvin Johnson

I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

Lauren Stamile

I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Tyler Hilton

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Dick DeGuerin

When they finally served Christine, it was time to do something.

Curt Bateman

When they finally got it shut down it was livable in there.

Morton Feldman

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

Dana Rohrabacher

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

David S. Goyer

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

Chloe Grace Moretz

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Victoria Justice

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

Emma McLaughlin

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

Casey Wilson

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

Sela Ward

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

Thalia

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

Alexa Vega

My mom always bails me out of things when I get in trouble.

Alexa Von Tobel

Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Dean Koontz

...,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy,

Chauncey Billups

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Laura Marling

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

Libba Bray

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?