Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Davis

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

Captain Beefheart

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Captain Beefheart

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Captain Beefheart

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Captain Beefheart

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Captain Beefheart

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

Captain Beefheart

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Darin Shepardson

We were better in a couple of spots, but overall we need to be better mentally prepared for a race. Cross country's a sport where you have to be ready to go when the gun goes off. You're not going to find the answers out of the course.

Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Peter Power

The panel request will clarify the wide range of U.S. government support for Boeing that will be subject to the panel hearing. The U.S. refused to cooperate fully with legitimate requests for documents and answers to written questions on elements of the U.S. subsidy regime for Boeing.

Richard G. Scott

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

William Scott

When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

Anita Diament

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Brent Spiner

I don't read fiction at all.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Brian Dawkins

The questions you have are the things we just have to go play through,

Scott Anderson

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

Aaron Miles

There are a lot of questions around here.