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.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Diane Kruger

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

Ed McBain

Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Ed Parker

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

Stuart Scott

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Kate McCullagh

We got to see a different style of volleyball.

Tim Hudson

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Alexander Smith

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

Athanasius

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

Bible Bible

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Chris Christie

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide.

Aristophanes

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Aeschylus

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Noam Chomsky

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Evelyn Waugh

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.