Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Susan Mays

The places that would never be seen except by the people who worked here, they decorated just like they did the rest of the house.

Samuel Butler

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.

John Wycliffe

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

Mike Boyajian

We're just going to keep looking forward. We have a tough stretch in front of us. We're playing all the top teams, except for Toll Gate (Feb. 10), over the next two weeks.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.