Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evans

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

Elizabeth Edwards

I want to reclaim who I am.

Elena Anaya

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Alan Rickman

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Alan Rickman

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Chris Christie

I am who I am, but I am not a bully,

Chris Black

You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like, "Oh, whatever." That's just not who I am.

Chloe Sevigny

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

David Guterson

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

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.

Maya Angelou

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

Robert Edwards

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Atharva Veda

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

Marc Williams

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Christopher Howson

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

O. Singh

Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.

Robin Dezarn

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Samuel Freeman Miller

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.