Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

John Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Kenny Harrison

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

John Sladek

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Malorie Blackman

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Kofi Annan

I think the report speaks for itself and he will have to speak for himself,

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Eugene Volokh

It doesn't limit itself to defamation. The principle is the same, whether it's libel or discrimination.

Thomas Lynch

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Terry Teachout

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Bill Brooks

He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park,

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Ayn Rand

Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

bell hooks

In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

William Shakespeare

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

Albert J. Nock

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases — as in the nature of things it must be — that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Clive Barker

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Daniel Tosh

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Bette Davis

I will never be below the title.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Emily Besler

We don't need the title to make things happen.

Peyton Reed

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.