Quotes About Getting A Gift

#1. I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.

Marcus Samuelsson

#2. So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

John Hodgman

#3. I mean, my idea of exciting is getting an Amazon gift card and buying a whole bunch of books.

J. Daniels

#4. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

Jeffrey Meyers

#5. He smiled. I still wasn't used to getting them, and this one made my heart speed up just a little bit. They were like a rare gift that he gave out. I snatched it up and stored it somewhere inside of me.

Mia Sheridan

#6. I couldn't help but think of my mother's most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man she barely knew, then producing me a year later. She'd always promised me that she had no regrets, that I was the best gift hr life had ever given her.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. I want to move people; it's not about me. I have been given the gift of being an entertainer. I love getting to touch people's lives.

Bethany Joy Lenz

#8. You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.

Meryl Streep

#9. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things
and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

Elif Batuman

#10. Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving, and when you give someone your love, that's the greatest gift of all. That's what God gave to us.

Frank Vincent Nunez

#11. Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.

Kim Smith

#12. I'm getting the jobs that are a gift, and also the jobs that I do because I just love them. That's ideal, for anybody. I get to enjoy the day that I go to work. I actually enjoy every minute of the day.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#13. I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.

Tony Gaskins

#14. If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

Guy Finley

#15. If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

Dan Ariely

#16. She seemed to have a gift for knowing exactly what people were looking for and how to offer them what they wanted while still getting her own way in the process.

Elizabeth Hunter

#17. When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

Lewis B. Smedes

#18. How can I give her what Don Fey gave me? The gift of anxiety. The fear of getting in trouble. The knowledge that while you are loved, you are not above the law.

Tina Fey

#19. I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.

Lisa Marie Presley

#20. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Carrie Fisher

#21. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

Ilona Andrews

#22. George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you?

Greg Giraldo

#23. We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

Kevin Chamberlin

#24. Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about the beauty of your heart. It's about being able to rise above even the worst of situations. It's one of the reason I've loved you every single day since I was 11 years old.

Mia Sheridan

#25. Writing is a gift I am grateful for. So I use it, give it, but not always I get it right. In not getting it right, I will be content to know that I failed right by not wasting that gift.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#26. You got me a 'congratulations on getting
out of re-education' gift?

Richelle Mead

#27. That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.

Jeff Fahey