Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Sarah Zettel

Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre.

Barbara Deming

After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately to give help to the person who has been injured.

Barbara Deming

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.

Paula Danziger

It's not about divorce, it's about living. I write about life. People sometimes go. Fathers sometimes leave. It's not all fun and games.

Kevin Williamson

I tried to fit a little humour into it when I thought it was appropriate, but it just gets uglier and uglier as July 4th approaches.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Tavis Smiley

I'm delighted. I don't know if he is, but I'm delighted to welcome him back to the show, this time here in person in our studios in L.A.

Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.

Robert Asprin

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

Michael Chabon

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

Robert McCloskey

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

R. A. Salvatore

Okay, I'm exaggerating, but the truth is that the Internet can be a powerful tool, both positive and negative, to a writer's career.

William Feather

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

Mark Twain

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.

Manute Bol

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

Mary Martin

This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work.

William Greider

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Rose Kennedy

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Bruce Barton

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Joseph Campbell

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Ron Chernow

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.

Sam Levenson

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.

Henry David Thoreau

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Herbert Croly

In the long run, consequently, the ordinary American will have nothing irremediable to complain about except economic and social inequalities.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Horatio Alger

I gave up my room on 34th St. because I had too many young callers who were unwelcome... For this reason please don't tell them where I am.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

James Beard

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.