Engaging Audiences Quotes & Sayings

When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate. — Gayle Forman

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. — Maya Angelou

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R.D. Laing

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person. — Brent Smith

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble. — Ridley Scott

I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. — John Rhys-Davies

There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that." — James Pearse Connelly

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening. — A.J. Darkholme

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms. — Brent Scowcroft

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. — Frederick Lenz

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience ... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. — Samuel Rutherford

Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist

At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me. — Ranbir Kapoor

We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last. — Sufjan Stevens

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman. — Abigail George