There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.
Bozoma Saint John
RewardKnowSaidRiskSomething
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
PoetryPoliticalSaidExpectation
When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
John Sebastian
I AmPeopleBeeLookReadySaid
There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.
Kimberly Bryant
BeautyFocusEnoughYouSaidWell
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.
Roxane Gay
InternetSaidSayBelievingSeeUs
For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in any close relationship. Yet there is something special about sisters - specially gratifying and specially fraught.
Deborah Tannen
RelationshipPeopleSaidSpecial
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
Philippe Petit
ArtMeRichFamousSaidEverybody
Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.
Melvyn Bragg
WorldBookFreeNumbersSaidWay
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
Mario Cuomo
LiveChurchSpeechSaidWantBelief
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
Tony Iommi
SurprisePlaceKnowSaidNiceNow
I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'
Jay-Z
GoodI AmPeopleElectionSaidWay
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
Brad Pitt
NameSaidGrandfatherGrandparents
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
Jimmy Carr
SchoolBookThoughtSaidSheUp
It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.
Tyra Banks
LifeBeautifulChildBabyYouSaid
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'
John Updike
MyselfMoneyStoryThinkSaidNow
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Julie Burchill
FaceFastSaidOutPassportPretty
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
Mary J. Blige
WomenMusicKnowSaidEveryoneUs
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
Donald Evans
GovernmentEnvironmentCreateSaid
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
Pierre Bayle
GoodSoulI AmMy SoulSaidDone
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
YourselfYouSaidDoneSayWrite
I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
Mariska Hargitay
FatherEnoughSaidQuitLuckyGoing
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
Tom Hooper
ChildhoodWifeWorldKnowSaidNice
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
Joshua Cohen
MeWritingNameSmokeSaidMy Own
When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.
Bradley Wiggins
WifeBabyGoldPrideSaidWant
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