Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Carter Heyward

She was tired in her body and soul of the indignities of being black in America. She was weary of the excuses and violence. She was sick and tired of racism.

Janet Flanner

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

Saul Bellow

She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.

Peter Ueberroth

She's been a leader; she's been gracious; she's somebody that cares for so many youngsters that are training in our country, and she is a real loss to all of the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and to the world. And she's made a courageous decision.

She's brought unparalleled excitement and attention to books. All of America should be grateful to her.

Paul Johnson

The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense I don't worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths - particularly its freedom of thought and expression - that it's going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future.

Ben Harper

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Ben Hogan

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

Benjamin Spock

You know more than you think you do.

Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Eric Schmidt

The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.

The patterns (of the virus) in Asia right now would not suggest that it would come over to North America this fall.

The patent system is a crucial part of what made America great. The companies who are complaining about the system are bad players, crooks who took great liberties with others' inventions. What they are really complaining about is being held accountable for their disreputable conduct.

The outlook for the fourth quarter is not so hot. It is very clear that results in North America will be compressed by all this price cutting.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Anne Sullivan

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Amy Poehler

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Clyde Tombaugh

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Bryan Brown

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

Brenda Holloway

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

Bobby Bragan

According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

Bobby Riggs

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

Bobby Riggs

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Bobby Hatfield

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.