Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Carroll

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

Margaret Halsey

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Richard Grant

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Daniel Yergin

Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia.

Robert Fulghum

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Kevin Williamson

There's going to be a trailer in the theater like this coming summer, and it is just going to be a black screen, and all you will hear is that music.

Robert Sheckley

There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week.

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spent one frenzied day interviewing producers, and ended up choosing Universal and Larger Than Life productions. It all happened in two days.

Sara Paretsky

I've been married for many years to a physicist who's been about as supportive and encouraging of my work as any partner could be.

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Russell Banks

The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack.

Mickey Spillane

When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

William Greider

The far more threatening problem is elsewhere - shrinking pensions, collapsed personal savings and soaring costs for health insurance.

Michael Chabon

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Fred Saberhagen

Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.

Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

Dick Bruna

Then one day I thought it would be nice to try to draw that rabbit and make a little story of it - and that's how Miffy started.

Sara Teasdale

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Margaret Haddix

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

Paul Auster

The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.

Robert Asprin

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Robert Fitzgerald

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Richard Grant

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

Peter Sellers

There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.

David Guterson

The sense that this world is an illusion, that desire is the root of suffering, the awareness of cause and effect-I have a great respect for all that.

Kevin Williamson

The setting of the situation is really cool, and it's very interesting. Jamie is dying to do this; she loved the idea. Can't you just imagine?