Attiyah Foundation Quotes & Sayings

If you want the ultimate thrill, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. — Mark Foo

Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way? — Tom Savini

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel. — Suzy Bogguss

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975. — Jonathan Raban

But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first]. — Timothy Ferriss

Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls. — Barbara W. Tuchman

FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.) — James Patterson

We are not ashamed to incorporate and adapt a good idea to our needs just because we didn't come up with it. Likewise, we are not afraid to abandon something we actually did come up with ourselves if we discover that it doesn't work. — Dave Redding

Before I go," he said, and paused
"I may kiss her?"
It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love. — Charles Dickens

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends. — Ryan Lochte

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

True love is actually very hard to understand ... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love ... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs — Yuu Watase

An acceptable death is a death which can be accepted or tolerated by the survivors. It has its antithesis: 'the embarrassingly graceless dying,' which embarrasses the survivors because it causes too strong an emotion to burst forth; and emotions must be avoided both in the hospital and everywhere in society. One does not have the right to become emotional other than in private, that is to say, secretly. — Philippe Aries