Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Epictetus

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Tom Peters

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
John Belushi

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman