Give Me Quotes - Page 22

• I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivation, Heart, Race

  4 Copy quote

• I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

  Alison Elliott

  School, Giving, Students

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

  Ayrton Senna

  People, Giving, Achievement

  70 Copy quote

• My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

  Maria Callas

  Drama, Sight, People

  6 Copy quote

• When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

  Henny Youngman

  Giving, Tables, Restaurants

  24 Copy quote

• It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

  Robin Trower

  People, Giving, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

  Camillus de Lellis

  Giving, Paradise, Tiny

  28 Copy quote

• I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Giving, Might

  7 Copy quote

• In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me to drink mandragora.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Drink, Forgetfulness

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 4

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

  Theodore Bikel

  Song, Drama, Musical Ability

  4 Copy quote

• When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Giving, Joy, Teeth

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.

  Billy Connolly

  Hands, Issues, People

  4 Copy quote

• Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.

  Bill Cosby

  Years, Conquer The World, Giving

  20 Copy quote

• My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Baby, Children, Husband

  4 Copy quote

• The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

  Emile Zola

  Mean, Reality, Giving

  19 Copy quote

• I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the most direct, non-figurative words, like, 'I like you, I like you,'... and that's it, for the whole song. People would go, 'Ooh, this guy's Dylan or something.' It gives me a lot more respect for songwriters, actually.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, I Like You, Writing

  16 Copy quote

• Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.

  Will Smith

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must be cheaper now than I was ten years ago in order to get a laugh. It's not funny now if I leave the table and give the waiter a nickel tip, which was a laugh years ago. Today I must maneuver it so that somehow I get the waiter to give me a nickel tip.

  Jack Benny

  Order, Years, Giving

  25 Copy quote

• I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

  Jackie Mason

  Crazy, War, Writing

  41 Copy quote

• Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, War, Iraq

  5 Copy quote

• The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  "Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis". Book by Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr, p. 18, 2009.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

  Don Rickles

  Hard Times, People, Giving

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

  133 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut.

  Tom Ford

  Cutting, Giving, Shows

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source