Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Hacker

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

Ogden Nash

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Ogden Nash

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

Eugene Field

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

John Erskine

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

John Erskine

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Brandon Sanderson

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Carole Bouquet

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

Paul O'Grady

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Anita Loos

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Robert Burton

Be not solitary, be not idle

Elizabeth Gaskell

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Virginia Woolf

To love makes one solitary.

Wendy Carlos

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Deepak Chopra

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Brennan Manning

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Dasha Zhukova

I think it's fascinating that clothes can drastically transform someone's mood or the way they feel about their appearance.

Donald Fagen

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Confucius

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

David Cameron

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Condoleezza Rice

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

David Platt

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.