Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

Robert McCarthy

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Sinclair Lewis

. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

Ehud Barak

shaping the overall strategy and the details of how to move forward.

Barbara Saunders

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

Tom Coburn

The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,

Maria Cheng

We don't have a lot of details as to what kinds of tests were done, but we are obviously keen to have the samples sent abroad.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Owen Heimer

The scale of theft exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this city,

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Brian De Palma

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Janice Dickinson

I have a very vivid imagination.

David Baldacci

I'm ever curious about the world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Kirk Hoza

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.

Ernst Mach

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

J. K. Rowling

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

H. G. Wells

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.