Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Richard Holland

Meeting today's and tomorrow's demands for safe, fresh water requires everyone's efforts, from isolated village communities to global industries and world leaders. Solutions need to be as diverse as the threats. The key will be in finding solutions that view meeting people's needs and nature conservation as compatible, not conflicting, aims.

Zalman Shoval

Now they want to say, 'What the previous administration put on the table, OK, we take that and let's start and have further demands and have further concessions from Israel,' ... That's not the way to do business.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Zoran Djindjic

Getting all our seats is not enough to satisfy Serbia, ... Our demands go far beyond.

Jamal Crawford

I felt overwhelmed by ticket demands and people wanting something from me. I said, I've got to get me a home team.

Dave Farrell

She still has some things to learn. I haven't pushed her to be a team leader because she is playing with juniors and seniors. But her position kind of demands it.

Austin Hill

If this is true, it could potentially be a very serious problem for Intel. It could lead to demands for a recall of the chip,

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Bikram Choudhury

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Cynthia Miller

You know, because of the way I was raised, you have to stay strong. It's only material things.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Eileen collins

I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.

Bethany Mota

I feel like whenever you dress for someone else, you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.

Natasha Leggero

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

Francis Lawrence

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Andrew Hall

Usually it was 6:30 p.m. to whenever we were tired.

Jacob Burtschi

Whenever we got close, they widened the gap.

Charles Smith

Whenever we go somewhere, it's like, 'What are we going to eat?

Brandon Kendzierski

Whenever we go at it, it's like a war.