I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.
Frank Perdue

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
John H. Speke

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
Will McDonough

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.
Norton Juster

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
Iris Chang

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Joan Collins

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
Julie Taymor

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
Karl von Frisch

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
Kamisese Mara

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
Frederick Reines

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
Abraham Whipple

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!
Elaine Paige

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
Ryan White

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
Henry Villard

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
Shawn Fanning

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
Alan Shepard