Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Spillane

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Ted Nelson

The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.

Herbert Gold

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Michael Connelly

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

Marilyn French

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Nelson Boswell

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Nelson Boswell

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

Nelson Boswell

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Nick Woodman

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

Mark Williams

We want it to be captivating and an emotional vision into what the wedding was, ... Video is a versatile tool to capturing a day like that.

Sugar Ray Leonard

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

Ray Buckley

The only way they are capturing them is by profiling. That's exactly what has to be happening in Hudson and New Ipswich, it's not the situation that they happen to arbitrarily find them.

John Noonan

I saw his love for the priesthood, just by being himself, ... He is like a poet, capturing the essence of life without words.

Jean Coutu

We look forward to capturing integration cost savings since we eliminated the dual head office infrastructures during the first quarter of fiscal 2006,

Gary Weiss

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Craig Venter

Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.

Scott Olson

Part of our success in capturing these fugitives is the trickery and surprise that we use.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

John Galliano

The perfume is sweet, like the girl, and is young and a fresh reinvention of Miss Dior.

John Calipari

We've got a young team, freshmen and sophomores and Rodney. But we've got a competitive group.

Bertolt Brecht

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Brad Childress

We've always spread it around. All the guys give you a little something different. And I think fresh legs are important.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

Robby Wine

We're going to solidify a lineup. There was a lot of things that went on last weekend. We just wanted to see what guys were made of. We realized that some of the freshmen weren't quite ready yet, and I think in the same aspect, we have some older guys that maybe started wondering where they stand with the team.

Mitch Metcalf

We're going to play around with keeping the show fresh and creative, but the game is going to stay the same and real people who have interesting stories are going to be at the core.

Charles de Lint

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Charles de Lint

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Charles de Lint

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Charles de Lint

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Chris Bohjalian

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

Chris Adrian

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Bill Russell

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Hector Elizondo

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

Dean Thomas

Neil has had a scan and we are just awaiting the results but he could be out for quite a while.

Peter Lawwell

Neil has apologised and we know that his reaction was wrong.

Tamora Pierce

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Polybius

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Susan Fletcher

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Asa Gray

Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair