Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Natsuo Kirino

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

Julian Bumbrey

We're extremely proud of where we are. We didn't know much about Prince Edward, but we knew they earned the right to be here and we had to be ready.

John Stevens

We know him well and he has already earned our respect and admiration,

Amy Pettibone

When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and that we're always going to be there. What a lot of people don't realize is that the region is a lot tougher than before. Every team that has made it this far has earned it.

Sandra Cisneros

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

Al Aldridge

She earned the respect of her teammates through her performance. The team was smart enough to realize they needed her if they were going to reach their goals.

Chogyam Trungpa

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

Chogyam Trungpa

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...

Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

David Schwimmer

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

David Sedaris

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

David Guterson

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

David Crosby

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

Dave Barry

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Mike Farrell

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Lenilson Guedes

That's one of the mysteries we have to solve.

Donald Kennedy

As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.