Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Kessel

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

David Conyers

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

Dave Morris

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

Benjamin Rush

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Dan Smith

Maybe I'll find something that I wouldn't find back home. I've been around (the country), and there are some books that are only sold regionally, since their authors are from those areas.

Dan Kammen

The assumptions made by some of the authors were not based on the best data, or were just a little bit too convenient, and had a strong impact on the results.

Chevy Stevens

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

Christopher Nolan

I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

Julie Kagawa

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Geno Auriemma

Our margin for error is so small. I'm not sure we deserved to win.

Marvin Neals

Our strength is our defense, and that's what got us back in the game tonight. This was a total team effort and a much deserved win for our team.

Andre Iguodala

(Robinson) deserved to win. This is for the crowd. If that's what they wanted, then that's what they got. I'm not too worried about it.

John Sharper

I was a little down on myself. I felt I was a good high school player. I felt like I deserved a scholarship. But that's just how it was. I've had to work for everything. I just had to suck it up and keep working.

Ovid

It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it

Trevor Carritt

Jeff wrestled smart, solid and tough. He was very consistent. He deserved this title; he has put in the time and work. I'm very proud of him.

Jack Rio

Jimmy has been a special player for a long time. We felt like he deserved that opportunity. We got him his yards, and we were able to get him out of there.

Joe Godinho

That was a good match. He was better on his feet. He went 100 percent. He deserved it, he deserved it.

Mackey Sasser

That was a game. That was one heck of a game. That was one of those games that nobody deserved to lose. Mitchell Davidson did a heck of a job for us, but (Ryan) Tucker did a great job for them. We were just fortunate enough to win.

Carrie Fisher

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Cory Doctorow

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Edward Gibbon

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Jim Carrey

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Elvis Costello

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Protagoras

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Larry Wall

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Ovid

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Neil Gaiman

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

E. M. Forster

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Karen Howard

I just think it's wonderful that he's being remembered like this,

Phil Garner

If you can get into the World Series and win the World Series in Houston, you can be remembered forever.

Roy Diliberto

We are going to be remembered forever. That's pretty cool.

Judith Butler

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Fred Funk

Sometimes I think I'm better remembered for the Skins skirt than for winning the Players.

Kathy Lewis

Dana will always be remembered for her passion, strength and ceaseless courage.

Dave Walla

It was like all of a sudden, we remembered how to shoot the ball.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.