Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

David Mamet

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Curtis Jackson

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves,

Cassandra Clare

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

Margaret Atwood

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

John Steinbeck

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.

Miranda Hart

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

Marianne Williamson

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Biz Stone

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Jodi Picoult

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Katie Couric

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Tim Tebow

The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.

Will Arnett

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.