Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Bob Beasley

We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.

Michael Ramsey

If you're stealing from the house, you don't tell the boss.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.

Kevin Mitnick

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

William Sullivan

makes it a little easier to push prices around.

David Clarke

Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use.

Abel Maldonado

made it easier for government to take property away from private citizens. That should be harder, not easier.

Roy Halladay

Loyalty for me is very important. You don't see it a lot in sports, not as much as sometimes I think you should. It's something that's important to me, it's something I value. It makes it easier when you're treated the way I've been treated.

Earl Blumenauer

less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.

Gary Karr

Many states are reporting they really don't have any problems. Most of the pharmacies seem to be reporting to us that things were easier this week than last week.

Gary Baker

Several hundred dial-up numbers have been reserved for our billable subscribers, making it easier for them to get on and stay on. We see the free service as an on-ramp to the Internet, for first-time users. They can experience the Internet before they have to pay for it.

Harmony Korine

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.