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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Tom Davies

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Gary Weiss

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Stephen Fleming

I don't function 100% because i sleep too much

Stephen King

I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,

Kevin Landis

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

Nicola Monaghan

It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Richard Flanagan

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

Charles Caleb

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies

Granth Sahib

One who has no Guru, dies over and over again, only to be re-born.

Mike Rudd

I found diesel and gasoline and several petroleum products. Some of them were kind of 'hot' stuff -- not just ordinary products. There was a lot of stuff down there.

Elizabeth Edwards

We're all going to die.

Eric Anderson

There are only so many new niches people can come up with. When everything's said and done, and all the hype dies down, you still have to run a wireless company.

Chelsea Clinton

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Patina Miller

I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.