Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

Atharva Veda

Forbearance, compassion and incorruptible virtue are the three pillars of a happy life. Only such a life can be called civilized; the rest is barbarian existence.

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Allard Baird

Losses bother me. Jokes do not. The losses were tough.

Ned Yost

Left-handers don't bother him. He has faced them all his life.

Michael Harrison

(SDSU) did a good job doubling our post players and bothering us offensively. They made some tough shots. They executed.

Damon Evans

Moving up doesn't bother me, ... but the only thing I'd be concerned about is the football staff has their plans together, and it is difficult to have to make changes this late in the game.

Julius Peppers

Nobody expects more out of me than me, so it doesn't bother me at all to hear people complain that 'He's not making plays' or 'He's not getting sacks,'

Oscar Hoya

One of the things that bothers me most, ... is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.

Jacobe Kendrick

Of course I've noticed it, but it doesn't bother me at all. I don't think there's any racial tension. I'm from West Texas, so I've seen that before. That's never crossed my mind. It's worse back home than it is here.

Allen Doyle

No one said a word to me, no one thought I had a chance, ... That's the way it's been for me from Day 1. It doesn't bother me one bit. ... It happens. You just have to put a low score up and make it happen.

Dakota Fanning

No, no. Never, ... Not at all. I enjoy what I'm doing so much that that doesn't even bother me at all, because I feel like I wouldn't be as happy.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Melissa Ordway

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Carolyn Strauss

Much ink has been spent on the tale of getting the show to the screen, ... The proof is in the product, however, and we say without reservation it is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition, yet remains rooted firmly in the fundamentals of solid characters and well-told stories.

Gayle Forman

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Karin Slaughter

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

John Challenger

The places where it's really going to hit is government and teachers. Governments are going to be unable to pay for the promises they've made. Pensions for teachers and government workers just dwarf what we see in the private sector.

Ben Folds

My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.

Robert Burton

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant

Charles Lada

This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.

Richard C. Armitage

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

Ann Veneman

A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.

David Spears

That's a huge project. This one will dwarf that, in terms of scope, impact and right of way.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Johnny Galecki

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Brent Weeks

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

Seanan McGuire

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes.

N. K. Jemisin

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

LaMont Jordan

One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards,

Jon Mills

Tough finishing holes. You just try to take it where you can get it.

Mark Larson

We are putting the finishing songs on our regular release.

Jon Constant

We didn't do a good job of finishing the game. It was a tough loss for us, but I think that we learned from it. We've got to finish.

David Wright

We're not going out there and setting our goals to try and knock teams out of the playoffs. We're trying to just make sure to finishing on a strong note that can springboard us into next year.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Jeff Gundy

We still have the same problems we had last spring: one-on-one defense; pick-and-roll defense; (we're a) high-turnover team; when it turned into a street fight, they fought harder than we did; and can we finish? Right now, we're not a finishing team. That's on me, that nothing's improved.

Taro Aso

understands that it was not a recalling of the envoy but an announcement of the finishing of his duties.

Ron Jirsa

We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Peerless Price

Life is funny. It all has come full circle.

William Shakespeare

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guillermo Coria

Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.

Martin Winterkorn

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

Tessa Jowell

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

Jim Bradley

On the run itself we have 92 barricades and over 300 cones.

Dan Aykroyd

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Allen Settle

The project itself was not voted on in 1999,

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Mike Adras

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dean Ornish

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Iris Apfel

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Source Unknown

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.