Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Ben Stiller

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Barry Hannah

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Tessy Shirakawa

We can't even plot it on a map.

Dick Cavett

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

John Grant

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Philip Larkin

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Miranda Richardson

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

John Lahr

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Lou Holtz

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.