Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Brian May

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Travis Bradberry

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Sathya Baba

Secure spiritual bliss first and then try to convey it to those who thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps give water?

Granth Sahib

Through devotional worship of the Lord, liberation and bliss are obtained.

Bethany Mota

I love cleansing my face in the mornings and at night using Bliss Foaming Facial Wash. It makes my skin feel soft, and the refreshing smell always wakes me up.

L.A. Weatherly

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

Patanjali

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Sathya Baba

When you see the world with the eye of divine bliss, you will find bliss everywhere.

Jez Butterworth

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.