Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Shelby Foote

Loneliness is one of the best things in the world for you. You do something about it: read, for instance, all kind of things, make friends.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

I was very touched, pleased and at the same time rather saddened by how sensitive the young people are to the need to build up a future.

Harry Mathews

I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didn't leave Harvard early; I actually finished.

Gregg Easterbrook

I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.

Walter Lord

Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Tavis Smiley

Give that to me so I can get out of here.

Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Michael Chabon

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Dick Bruna

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

Beverly Cleary

My books take place in a very specific neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It must be the most stable neighborhood in the United States.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Michael Chabon

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

John Shirley

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Russell Banks

I think probably in the earlier parts of my career I was influenced by writers such as Hawthorne and Melville - the American classics.

Marguerite Young

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Keith Miller

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.