Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

Walter Kirn

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

George Allen

I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

Victoria Strauss

There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

F. Sionil Jose

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

Paul Hogan

I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

Ken McKenna

We set high standards. In training every day we are on at the players and we keep working at things and giving them targets. But they are all aspiring to do better so it is just a matter of keeping them hungry.

Frank Shields

There are more film schools here than any other city, pumping out more aspiring filmmakers, and there is nowhere to show their work.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

Kacy Catanzaro

During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

JC Chasez

When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited.

Dan Hill

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

Blink 182

I think it's so incredible that there are all these boy bands out there, like the Backstreet Boys and N'sync. They're all so bad! It hurts me, I've cried!

Dean Wareham

Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.

Kevin Richardson

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got ''Backstreet.'' We put ''Boys'' on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Carson Daly

You're in the Backstreet Boys. This inevitably will be a great thing for your career, ... I've been busted in strip clubs. We're men. That's what we do.

A. N. Wilson

Darth Vader portrayed as a Backstreet Boy gone bad.

Kristin Cast

No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.

Simon Cowell

Let me tell you who's gonna be in the finals. The bald-headed kid (Daughtry) and the guy with gray hair (Hicks).

Jim Daley

Milt sure has had a great year, and he's gonna have a great second half of the year, and I hope he explodes on Sunday.

Bill Withers

When I look at you And the world's all right with me Just one look at you And I know it's gonna be A lovely day.

Joe Carnahan

If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.

Helen Marshall

The place where they're planning to put the stadium is a place that needs rehabilitation and it's gonna be tough for us to get the money to do that, ... This way, we will have something that's positive here.

John Mattos

On paper, it looks like we don't have a shot in heck to do anything in this championship. But it isn't gonna be that way.

Randy Clark

I was gonna watch television, I was going to have my breakfast, I was just going to stay home and relax.

Chloe Sevigny

I was really shocked at myself for signing on without knowing where it was gonna go, or much of anything else.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Slim Whitman

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

Hines Ward

Everyone thinks he's tough. He is, but he's a players' coach.