I like to look at the glass half full.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same – keep what’s published in the form in which it appeared.

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating...

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don’t know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full...

We don’t have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There’s a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it’s not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don’t respect rights.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

I don’t go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

An empty coffee cup is full of hope. Now there’s something worth voting for.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

One of the few times in a man’s life when he is not full of shit!!The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said!

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a...

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

I have a living room full of clothes. It’s insane.

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don’t leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best; you were created to use every gift in you!

It’s strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

That’s why I ended up leaving school – because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed...

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like ‘Mad Max’ for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we’re...

I’m not always in a full face of make-up! That’s actually one of the things I like about make-up – that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

But ‘Playboy’ was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can’t innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe...

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I love driving around east London – it’s always full of surprises. Actually, I don’t drive myself – I like to be driven.

I’ve always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

God’s forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I...

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

My future is full – it is limitless – and my passions for America will remain.

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary...

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t.

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye...

My daughter’s 19. I’m not asking her to develop as an artist. I’m just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

There’s only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing – you’ve gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants – but as far as...

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis,...

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film...