Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Russell Smith

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Jen Smith

More Americans seem generally lazy while many undocumented immigrants work harder for less pay because they want a better life and know what's at stake in getting that life.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Tim LaHaye

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Andy Richter

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Jim Murphy

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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.