Quotes About Captivating An Audience

#1. Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

Jack Gleeson

#2. Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

David Lagercrantz

#4. Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Nachman Of Breslov

#5. I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Bobby McFerrin

#6. The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

Lauren Conrad

#8. There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

Jim Butcher

#10. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we'd look back on the double whammy of 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' as the golden age of TV's singeing singing satire.

Richard Corliss

#12. I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

Dennis Hopper

#13. In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.

Helen Steiner Rice

#14. Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.

Sanchita Pandey

#15. I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit - it makes me sound like a total geek.
[That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

Rick Riordan

#16. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Emma Watson