Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Drea De Matteo

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Gregory Maguire

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

Flannery O'Connor

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Indira Gandhi

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Edward Carpenter

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Ronald Fisher

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Samuel Johnson

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

David Brin

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Denis Leary

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

Natalie Appleton

The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak

Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Chauncey Billups

Watching him is unbelievable. The kid is a freak of nature.

Jason Johnson

Freaky things happen, and it seems like it's been happening to us lately,

Ken Henderson

From all our indications, this was just a freak accident. Nobody ever thought this would happen (with the open windows).

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Buddy Bell

He's done it before, he understands situations. He doesn't freak out.

Glen Murray

There are sharks everywhere, obviously. But I've never seen one while I was surfing. It's an unwritten rule that we don't talk about it. If you're going to go out on the water worried about that, you're going to freak out. You shouldn't be out there if you're thinking about sharks.