Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Stephen Graham Jones

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Greg Panter

From our perspective the facts are it's a good year, but by no means a record flow.

Kenneth Frazier

If a retrial is scheduled we will be right back with the same facts.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Bill Burr

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.