Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

Kevin Nealon

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

Kenny Rogers

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Grover Norquist

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.

Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Barbara Walters

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Sher

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara Sher

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

Barbara Smith

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

Barbara Smith

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Ben Shapiro

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.

Ben Carson

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be.

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.

Lesley Gore

Times were very different then, so, you know, I just tried to live as normally as humanly possible. But as truthfully as humanly possible.

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Joe Henderson

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Jim Rogers

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

Newt Gingrich

Traditional politics is dominated by and defended by a collection of elites who are deeply opposed to the solutions America needs to renew its civilization and ensure its economic and national security interests. These elites want a dramatically different world from the values and aspirations of most Americans.

Jhumpa Lahiri

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

John Carlos

This statue is a glorified thing to have on my alma mater. It is here for the youth of America.

Mo Brooks

You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.

George Bodenheimer

You look at the body of work that has been completed here over 36 years: the great games, the stars, the story lines, the part of Americana that 'Monday Night Football' is, it's really a magnificent piece of work.

Rick James

You don't really know your own worth because you don't know what may happen tomorrow.