Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifton Fadiman

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Anne Carson

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Gertrude Stein

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

James Laughlin

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

James Laughlin

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

Leslie Fiedler

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Charlize Theron

One thing can make many other things happen.

Donald Trump

If you haven't noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It's catastrophic in certain ways.

John Coltrane

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

Garry Winogrand

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

Rob Reiner

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

Usain Bolt

Every season something happens so I programme that in; something will happen.