Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

Patrick Quinn

Magazines and newspapers are loath to discuss these types of deals publicly.

Tim Fitzpatrick

Lexmark's cartridge return program deals exclusively with laser printer toner cartridges. It does not involve any inkjet products. The court's decision was very specifically about this program.

Freya Stark

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Peter Jacobson

More often than not, these deals go through at agreed-to valuations.

Ben Olsen

My girlfriend's a high school teacher and she told me it's just like a 16-year-old, ... She deals with them every day. They say things and they spout off and then they get punished and they learn lessons or they don't learn lessons. He got punished and now we move on.

Ben Holmes

Obviously KPMG is an old-line name. It's a really encouraging sign to see it trade to a premium like this. The deals up to now have been really spotty.

Ben Holmes

Obviously KPMG is an old-line name, ... It's a really encouraging sign to see it trade to a premium like this. The deals up to now have been really spotty.

John Orrico

The prices are better on the small deals because they are off the radar screens of the large pools of capital.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Jack Ellis

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Dan Aykroyd

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Jim Clarke

We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.