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.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is. Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is, ... Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Humberto Cota

More tough luck, man. For Sean and for us. It's a big blow.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Dean Young

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Alexander Wang

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Albert Einstein

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.