Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Bruce Willis

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Brion James

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Conor McPherson

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Jacques Audiard

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Charles Simonyi

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Spurgeon

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Alan Parsons

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Alan Alda

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Chris Colfer

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

Chogyam Trungpa

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

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

Balthazar Getty

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

Diablo Cody

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

Bobby Rahal

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Brian Lamb

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Ashthon Jones

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

Dominika Cibulkova

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

Amy Lee

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.