Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.