Gives Quotes

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.