Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

Charles de Lint

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles de Lint

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

David Agus

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Laura Halldorson

I think ideally we would like to stick with a lineup here down the stretch. That would be the goal, but I'm not going to rule out the possibility of tweaking it if we think we need to at some point.

Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

John Rash

NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

Eric Coyne

Ideally you want to do this once, and do it right.

Oliver Luck

Ideally you'd have 12 months to set this up, to get a staff and do everything necessary, and we've had three months to ramp up. But we'll be ready to go.

Samantha Fox

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Joe Eberhardt

We have more inventory than we'd ideally like.

Malcolm Rifkind

a serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

Charles Taze Russell

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Joan Armatrading

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

John Hope

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

James O'Shea

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader