Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Vince Suriano

We played hard, but we were haunted by the big play.

Bret Ellis

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

Ted Ritter

It haunted him for the rest of his life. And he took it to his grave.

Bruce Udvari

Serves haunted us. You give up 10 points to any team and that's not good. I have to give the kids credit. They stuck in there.

Sue Smith

It's looking less and less haunted all the time,

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Landon Liboiron

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Diablo Cody

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

Wendy Crewson

Nobody honestly thought she would do the things she did.

Lilly Singh

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

Edward Murphy

I don't think you can honestly say there's a shortage of capacity, because there is worldwide capacity. We did not go running up and say, 'Mr. Barton, will you please do this?' We are supportive of it.

Bob Morton

I look through the team and I can honestly say I can't see a weakness,

Keith Gayden

I have a lot of thoughts. I don't know what to say. I don't know what happened. I honestly thought he would be here next year. Put it like that.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Rhoda Katz

We live in a place where there are a lot of people who started out with us that are no longer here. But this is so different, to lose all of these wonderful, vibrant people at once. There is just a pall over this place.

Brandon Boyd

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

Lee Peterson

Since he is innocent, we don't want him sitting there any longer than he has to.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Carl Douglas

Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

Agnes Obel

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Agnes Repplier

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Gary Sheffield

Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Scott Gomez

Obviously, it's a shock right now to hear,