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.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Dennis Prager

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Jenn Lyon

I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.

Doug Henning

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Beth Henley

I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to look at it unless it's a success.

Tom Rath

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

Deborah Smith

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Edgar Allan Poe

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

A. R. Ammons

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Charlotte Rampling

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlie Watts

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Bill Johnson

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

Bernie Mac

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.