Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brock

Responsible news outlets should think twice before providing him a platform from which to peddle his inappropriate and inaccurate claims,

Scott Ritter

There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government.

Kathleen Vokes

It's a shame that someone would use a tragedy and spread inaccurate information.

Diana Don

It looks like someone we got a (mailing) list from had some inaccurate information. I'm sure we need to get her off the list.

Brian Roehrkasse

This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.

Simon Awde

The issues today remain unchanged. Two years on, Microsoft's technical documentation remains incomplete, inaccurate and unusable.

Laurence Fishburne

It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.

Stan Rosenstein

In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.

Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles de Gaulle

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles de Lint

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Charles de Lint

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Jonathan Tropper

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Charlotte Rampling

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

Simon Reuben

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Ben Kingsley

The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Antonio Gramsci

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Antonio Porchia

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Robert Barnes

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.