Gives Quotes

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.