If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.

- Amy Nuttall

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

- Brad Pitt

The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

- Boris Johnson

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

- Bonnie Hunt

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

- Blaise Pascal

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

- Billy Graham

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

- Bill James

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

- Bill Gates

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

- Benjamin Franklin

I definitely gain weight, and I'm not naturally thin.

- Bella Hadid

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

- Alexander Pope

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

- Alice Morse Earle

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

- Autumn Reeser

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

- Anna Paquin

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

- Alicia Sacramone

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

- Alice Sebold

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

- Alice Sebold

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

- Anne Rice

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

- Andy Serkis

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

- Andre Agassi