Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Headley

Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.

Adam Ross

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.

Peggy Cox

Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team overall. We were hoping to do a little better but we didn't have much for distance runners today.

Jason Jaffray

Of all four games on the trip, this was the one we needed to get some distance between us and this team. We've been winning, and we haven't been gaining any ground on these guys.

Mozelle Williams

We won't be entered in any distance relays, nor any of the jumps.

Democritus

There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.

Denis Johnson

This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration

Denis Diderot

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Charles Olson

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Diane Paulus

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Demosthenes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Deborah Tannen

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.