Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Falun Gong

receiving a high level of attention from the Chinese government.

Roger Pielke

reinforces the view that we should pay even greater attention to preparing for the inevitability of future intense hurricanes striking vulnerable locations around the world. In the context of ever-growing coastal development, the costs of hurricanes are going to continue to escalate.

Daniel Winkowski

Relatively nothing is known about how the brain increases and decreases signaling. We want to discover the cellular mechanisms of how attention works.

Todd Davidson

Oregon offers some of the most accessible, high quality lodgings in the West, each with its own distinct service and attention to detail. It's gratifying to receive this recognition, especially when it's from travelers themselves.

Rob Walton

Paul and Jose are rotating off as part of our normal governance guidelines relating to the service of our outside directors. John chose not to stand for re-election in order to focus his attention on his duties as lead director of Delphi.

John Cacioppo

Part of living a healthy life is paying attention to friends and family.

Jeff Schuster

Paying attention to the changing lifestyles of the consumer is very important. When you have so much competition differentiating your product over others with a little tiny thing that suits (the consumer's) lifestyle may be enough to sway them.

Leatrice Eiseman

Pay attention to your feelings, ... Don't be concerned with what others think. Color is a highly personal choice.

Daryl Strohbehn

Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.