Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

You can't write if you can't relate.

Beck

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

Beck

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

Barry Mann

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Barry Mann

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

Barry Mann

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Bryson

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Bill Vaughan

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

Daniel Quinn

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Andy Weir

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

Christopher Moore

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Christopher Moore

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Demetri Martin

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'