Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Richard Russo

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Edmund White

With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive.

James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Sue Grafton

Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair.

Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Robert Ludlum

Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?