Sparingness Quotes & Sayings

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce. — Clive James

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. — Pierre De Coubertin

But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years. — Edith Wharton

Leaves skirled past, clattering like tiny bones. — Steven Erikson

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting. — Edward Herrmann

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is. — Oliver Stone

You are so unique that you can make your success unlimited & be always needed for nobody can do what you do exactly like you — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I said evenly, "Loving's low-tech. Usually he uses sandpaper and alcohol on sensitive parts of the body. Doesn't sound too bad but it works real well." I — Jeffery Deaver

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass. — Hannah More

Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally be indulged. — Cassandra Clare

It's ridiculous, when I think about it. How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. Where did I take the wrong turn? — Paula Hawkins

Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again) — Robbie Fowler

It took from 1967 to 2003 - over three decades - to build the big men. It took a decade - 2003 to 2013 - to destroy them. I suspect a new generation of big men will return. No people can tolerate chaos forever. Dictators will offer a way out and many of the exhausted and brutalized people of the Middle East will accept them, and I suspect Washington will as well. — Richard Engel

I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration. — Tairrie B