Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

Ahmet Ertegun

It is a great life, this life of music,

Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Demi Moore

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Bruce Lee

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Live it well and this life can be grand.

Andrew Vachss

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Gwendolyn Brooks

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Michel de Montaigne

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.