Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Wilson

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

Bernard Cornwell

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

Mike Wilson

I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.

Anthony Powell

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anne Perry

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine hours a day, six days a week.

Anthony Powell

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Anne Perry

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

Mitchell Reiss

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

Gary Graves

I think the school's test scores that I've seen in the papers recently show that this new math thing really isn't what it was cracked up to be. It should be revisited.

Brent Frank

Just as we saw with Wal-Mart, the immediate sale of properties on Lucy Lane, and shortly after that, with the arrivals of Home Depot and Lowe's and Cracker Barrel, we saw that rapidly come along.

Thad Matta

That was one of the toughest games I've ever been involved in. It was a game of crazy plays and, fortunately, we got the last crack at it.

The Wizard

That's the scary part. I didn't know if I should smile, crack up, scream or run.

Emily Mortimer

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

Carte Goodwin

I think everybody's on the same page with the stated objective of cracking down on pedophiles and sexual predators.

Bruce Green

It doesn't look good right now. In the back of the home, there are several cracks throughout the walls of the house.

Greg Robbins

I feel like we're reaching the kids that fall between the cracks because of funding,

Lynn Coady

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

Jill Lepore

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Jonathan Galassi

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Helen Araromi

Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.

Natalie Forbort

It could hurt other students who might want financial aid. There isn't an endless supply of money.

Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

David Hudson

There is an endless supply of speech that seems to offend these days.

Mark Margolis

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.

Roman Polanski

Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,

Miranda July

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

Jean Chretien

I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,

Vicki Culver

I think that this is entirely too much to take on for this organization. I feel that the rest of our programs will suffer.

Tom Brady

I'd love to be here for the rest of my career, but it's not entirely my decision.

Michael Hurst

Hannah is playing a lead role in this piece. The story is told entirely through her. That's a huge journey for her.

George Pierce Baker

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Li Zhaoxing

China-Japanese relations are facing difficulties and the responsibility entirely lies with the Japanese side,

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

Thomas Keller

Restaurants like the French Laundry can be very intimidating for a lot of people.

Chris Bell

I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

Li Na

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Edmund White

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Jaime Salazar

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Laurence Housman

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.