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.

Thomas Dooley

If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Edwidge Danticat

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Jalal Talabani

We want that American forces will be special guidance, not to engage in daily work or operations ... We want Americans to be far from the daily sacrificing. It's our duty to sacrifice for our people and for our country.

Alan Bennett

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Chris Cleave

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Jack Ryan

The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families who suffer the risk of always worrying - you are the heroes.

Gretchen Rubin

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Frank Robinson

We're still not going to be a juggernaut. We're not going to be where we feel like we can outscore teams on a daily basis.

Miley Cyrus

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

Ellie Goulding

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

Tony Benn

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Amber Heard

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

A. A. Milne

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

Tracy Chapman

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Walter Salles

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Anais Nin

My diary seems to keep me whole.

Kenneth Williams

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

S. Walker

We've got a very educated and skilled work force that is not stupid. They understand the implications of (the proposed contract) and they voted accordingly.

Mario Testino

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

David Gardner

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Jenna Berry

We recommend parents come with their kids because some of videos are graphic. We are not trying to scare the youngsters, we just want them to be more educated so they can make better choices.

Danita Rickard

For so many years we've prepared our students to go into higher education and they rarely returned to the community. Hopefully, our students will now be educated here and go to work here.

Flea

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

Mortimer Adler

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

C. S. Lewis

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Evan Spiegel

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Lawrence Korb

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

Marc Faber

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

Kevin Adams

Musically and creatively, it's more fulfilling than any thing I've ever done, ... Live From Studio B.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Clayton Christensen

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Les Brown

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

James Nykolay

To be in love with somebody and having a fulfilling life you're not missing out on anything not having penetrative sex.

Victoria Osteen

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Dorothy Stukes

We are here so our voices can be heard, so our lives and our levees can be rebuilt, so we can go home.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Jandy Nelson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.