My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream. — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion. — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed,… — John Green Copy Share Image
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time.… — Harry Shum, Jr Copy Share Image
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke.… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two. — James Carville Copy Share Image
