My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson 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
Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up… — Philip Johnson 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
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett 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
I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I… — Bill Bellamy 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
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
To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I… — Lolo Jones Copy Share Image
