Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Brown

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

Jon Brooks

Catty Cat is the boss. Catty Cat always sets them straight.

Alexa Vega

Going in first off as a freshman into regular high school is really tough, because people already make fun of you. Going in as an actor is even harder... the worst thing that could have happened, because you get so many jokes about it. I don't know, girls are really, really catty at this age.

Mindy Segal

There's a lot of estrogen going on here. I'm not saying it's a good thing, either. Women are very catty and very calculated. They tend to have ulterior motives.

Bruce White

We are pleased to expand on our existing relationship with RLJ, who we have come to respect as consummate professionals, and look forward to continued growth as we work together to enhance the value of this high-quality portfolio.

Dennis Nahat

She's a consummate artist. She's got the will of a Trojan horse, and I'm sure she'll be back.

Mike Pope

Mike's very meticulous and organized because of his military background. He does things in an orderly fashion and he's succeeded wherever he's gone. He's very respected in this league, the consummate special teams coach.

Don Leach

When you're running a business, the worst thing that can happen is four different people expressing their views, which may make it difficult to consummate the deal.

Steve Gulley

My favorite musician of all time is James Taylor. He is just the consummate musician.

Johnny Miller

He was a consummate pro in the way he handled himself. I just loved him.

Cory Sullivan

He is the leader on the team and a consummate professional. All the young guys watch him. He is a great guy to mirror.

Rod Carew

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rodney Harrison

He's a consummate pro, ... I think I see him more than my wife.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.