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.

Marie Lu

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!

Richelle Mead

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Demian Bichir

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Orlando Bloom

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

Rick Carlisle

We were sloppy at times offensively. Our turnovers have to come down. Twenty-nine is an epic number.

A. R. Rahman

How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.

Cary Fukunaga

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it...

Charles Baudelaire

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Edward M. Lerner

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Dominika Cibulkova

You don't have to be big to be great.

Ludwig von Mises

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

Bing Crosby

Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.

Beth Moore

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Billy Sunday

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

Diablo Cody

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

Jason Calacanis

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

Balthazar Getty

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

Brittany Murphy

I'm not really a big candy eater.