Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C. S. Lewis

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Ricky Gervais

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Brent Weeks

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

David Mitchell

If your words're true, they're armed.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Emmett Shear

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

Janice Dickinson

I borrow bits from everyone.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Chris Lilley

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Helen Petrauskas

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

Greg Austin

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

Keeley Hawes

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.