Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Charlie Chaplin

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

Charles de Lint

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Charles de Lint

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

Charles de Lint

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

Charles de Lint

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.

Charles de Lint

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

Charles de Lint

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

Charles de Lint

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

Al Pacino

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Carlos Castaneda

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

Beth Gibbons

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Charlie Sheen

You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's.

Carine Roitfeld

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Cameron Diaz

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Alan Cumming

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Eckhart Tolle

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.