Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Marcy Kaptur

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

Jennifer Haigh

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

Peter Moody

One project on the drawing board, and it may very well be the first thing that we'll be moving, is our diagnostic imaging department.

Russ Granik

One problem is where you draw the line.

Cornelia Skinner

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions

J. August Richards

Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.

Joe Sacco

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

John Hall

No one has the guts to draw the line.

Tony Russa

Like I said, I didn't ask, ... When I got the thumbs-up I said OK and I walked out, so I don't know.

Callie Thorne

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Joe Peel

She understands the severity of what's going on down there and that those people need help, ... She's OK with it.

Trinny Woodall

Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.

Dee Brown

If they tell me to go back to school then that's what I'll do. That's OK. I'm OK with that.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

Amanda Thompson

I did okay (in the 800). I could have done better. I like it better outside.

Teresa Favuzzi

The question is: Are we really talking as a society that we want to support suicide for anyone? Because this is a societal question. Are we saying suicide is okay for some people but not other people?

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.