Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Charlie Chaplin

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

Charles de Lint

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Charles de Lint

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

Charles de Lint

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

Charles de Lint

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.

Charles de Lint

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

Charles de Lint

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

Charles de Lint

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Herbert Read

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

R. L. Stine

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.

Edgar Wright

I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.

Kelly Hu

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

Ted Cruz

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

John Green

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

Matthew Fox

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Mara Wilson

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

Paul Weller

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Johnny Depp

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

Helen McCrory

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.