The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

When I am invited to a friend's house I always gift a bottle of Black & White as it's one of the best tasting Scotch whiskies today and always tastes better when shared!

My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't...

'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or...

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a...

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

John Rogers has an encyclopedic mind. Having John as our showrunner is the gift that keeps on giving. He knows more trivial information than anyone I've ever met in my entire life.

Oh yes, my best birthday gift was when my dad gifted me my first car in college. It was a Maruti Swift. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It was so much fun, as I could completely show it off...

God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.

I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

The coolest gift I've ever received from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, whom my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and...

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of...

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path...

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

A beautiful soap left in the guest bathroom, some fresh flowers by the bed, or a small gift of chocolates in their room will make anyone feel welcome.

Critique, feedback, reaction to one's work or the way they have presented it, regardless of intention, is a gift.

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the...