Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Don DeLillo

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Don DeLillo

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

Stan Gehrt

People in Chicago walk past coyotes every day and never see them. The population has increased rapidly.

Brooks Boyer

Surpassing 20,000 season tickets is a tremendous milestone for the Chicago White Sox. The support of our fans has been overwhelming, and it allows us the resources to continue to improve our on-field product.

Rick Carlisle

Our undoing was in the first half. I thought we played really well, really hard and really together. It's hard to dig yourself out of that big of a hole. We have to learn something from the last two games. We got fortunate in Chicago because we were able to pull it out when we played a poor first half. But we weren't able to get over the hump (Monday).

Stan Hyman

Rob pitched two really good innings at Chicago State. ... In his last three or four outings he's really looked good. He has really turned it on and that's really comforting to me because now we have three or four guys that we can go to in situations.

Bea Arthur

I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.

Roger McGuinn

I went to the south side of Chicago and got what I thought was a Stella, but it had a spruce top. It was a nice sounding guitar.

Paul Wright

The $95 was for a group in Chicago where everyone pitched in $5.

Julius Peppers

That was a great performance by our offense. Who would have thought the vaunted Chicago defense would give up 29 points?

George Whalin

I think May deciding to sell its Chicago stores to Federated is a very real possibility, ... Federated desperately wants more of a presence in the Midwestern market.

Carl Jung

Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.

Dolly Parton

My life has been very full.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.