Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

J. M. Roberts

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

Jacqueline Whitmore

Many times, all it takes is a glance or a gentle 'Excuse me,' and you turn back and watch the movie.

Ned Collins

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

Larry Pellegrini

My guess is the lateness of the session will be used as an excuse to just not stand up for it.

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

Cardinal Richelieu

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him

Camille Paglia

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

Gretchen Rubin

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

Al Groh

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

Catherine the Great

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Dennis Brown

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Bram Stoker

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Grant Thomas

I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road.

Kid Rock

He was really in the mood for partying and wasn't about to be outdone by any of the other rockers.

Gerhard Schroeder

The people don't see a future, the country's mood is gloomy,

Laura Mvula

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

Wali Lundy

I think the mood of the team is wanting to go out there and prove themselves,