Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Lydia Leonard

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

Caroline Thompson

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Lady Gregory

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Lisa O'Hare

My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

David Waltemeyer

There are other surrounding jurisdictions to Anne Arundel County that do have open investigations (into McKay). We've provided information about our case and, in turn, they've provided information from their investigations.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

China Mieville

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

David Ginola

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

David Prowse

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

David Naughton

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

China Mieville

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

China Mieville

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Michael Todd

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

Carolyn Maloney

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Charles Baudelaire

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Bela Lugosi

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Alexandre Aja

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Jane Goldman

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Michael Lindell

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them,

Tom Underwood

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Jim Silver

There are lots of things that need to be done to revive Barbie.

Steven Vanderburg

There are lots of scattered showers over the ocean.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Annalee Newitz

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Oren Peli

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Pete Townshend

Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.

Kevin Kelley

Peter does everything for us. He's probably one of the most underrated players out there.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Maggie Smith

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Anupam Kher

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

Robert B. Parker

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Alan Ball

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Darren Shan

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

David Sedaris

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Camille Paglia

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Deborah Harkness

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.