Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Edmund White

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Charlene Johnson

When I look back at their lives, at the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made for generations they had never even met, I don?t see how we can do less.

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

William Shakespeare

Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself

Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Mark McKinnon

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Richard Jefferies

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Linda McMahon

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

Steve Wall

Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Steve Wall

Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Lesli Linka Glatter

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.

Justin Lee

One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs... ninjas.

Marc Cherry

Yes, we're trying some new stuff, ... Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Richard Muller

episodic catastrophes give a new opportunity to the next group.

Jane Krakowski

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.

Isabella Rossellini

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Horace Horace

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

Eric Kriss

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Sathya Baba

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Juan Ferrero

My form is getting better day by day and I guess I am ready for my first title this year.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Joe Horn

One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.

Kevin Kwan

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Trey Anastasio

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Judy Hayles

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

John Andrews

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Lady Gregory

It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

Robert Stack

I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.

Jack Straw

those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

Robert Hall

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Bill Hall

We'll settle on a number (today) but we're still negotiating the length of the deal.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Cathy Schroeder

We have rigorous monitoring of each and every scorer.

Joe Carnahan

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.