Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rice

Fossil finding will be a very difficult job on Mars. I don't think robotic missions will do it. It will take astronauts and even then it will be a tough job.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Caleb Carr

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Caleb Carr

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Margaret Mitchell

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Margaret Mitchell

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Armistead Maupin

Well, Terry and I broke up 10 years ago. So the healing that was going to happen, happened. So mostly this was a stroll down memory lane.

Lillian Smith

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

Paul Williams

Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath.

Judith Guest

I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100.

Jerry B. Jenkins

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Sholem Asch

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Jerry B. Jenkins

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Greg Vaughn

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

John Hawkes

He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Mark Helprin

If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Mary Grandpre

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

He was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars.

Armistead Maupin

I wish we could have used more than we used, but there is a certain conventional wisdom about filmmaking that says that long phone calls are taboo.

Jonathan Franzen

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Djuna Barnes

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Don DeLillo

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.