Gave Quotes

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I gave my all.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas.

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.