Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Life isn't divided into genres

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

Thomas Ligotti

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Emraan Hashmi

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Bob White

Members of the board, I think you need to give me the latitude to do what I see is fit, ... You can trust me. I've proven that to you.

Richard Berner

They will still go. Absolutely. Definitely. There's no question about it. They now have a little latitude to space the timing of the increases, but there's no question they will move.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.