Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

Charles de Lint

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles de Lint

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

George Leonard

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

P. J. Harvey

Versus is a word that perfectly captures the essence of our brand. It is immediate shorthand for competition.

Cameron Crowe

The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.

Leslie Cockburn

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

Nick Woodman

GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, 'Hey, we're going to do something fun, and we're going to capture a video of it.'

Horst Faas

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Josh Taylor

We also would like to express our gratitude to the police and to the private citizens who helped to capture his attacker, and we are confident that justice will be served.

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control. It is India that has tried several times to capture our posts.

Todd Howard

We wanted to work with voice talent that really captured the emotion and drama of the game's story. Quite honestly, we wrote the parts with these individual actors in mind. It's an honor to have them lend their talents to the project.

Phil Forest

We're spending more time on our computers. Even though television viewing is up, there is still a percentage that they're losing. If they put programs on the Internet, they can capture more of the audience. That's one of the key factors driving the networks.

Russell Smith

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

Mario Testino

I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.

Nick Harkaway

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Arthur C. Clarke

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Alessio Vinci

The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,

Joe Garagiola

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

Clay Sell

There are more than two dozen states where we would look to site a second repository.

John Cross

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,

Jami Attenberg

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Tom Craft

Jeff is a great receiver in a league where there are probably half a dozen great receivers,

Rob Bibler

I think with Huston, you could pick a dozen films.

George Foresman

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

James Rogers

Today is as foggy as it's ever been in our industry.

Edward Indakwa

It was foggy and we could not get the chopper airborne. We will resume the operation tomorrow.

Jack Charlton

It was no good marking Foggy because once he started to run you had to stay with him and not many people could.

Lofa Tatupu

I remember everything up until the hit. Then it gets a little foggy after that. Some of the plays I didn't really remember, but the guys helped me get through it.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Robert Bates

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

David Suzuki

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Bill Rodgers

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Connie Mack

The notion is probably somewhere between $250,000 to $350,000.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Charles de Gaulle

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Charles Stanley

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Charles Spurgeon

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.