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.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Craig Thompson

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Douglas Coupland

There is no shame in impulse.

Amy Tan

Your only shame is to have shame.

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.