Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Neal Shusterman

I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

Bruce Babbitt

The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands,

Scott Westerfeld

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

Helen Dunmore

Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.

There are other chapters to be written about that story.

Since the last meeting, you should have received from me comments on Chapter 7, which is the resources of community character.

Samantha Power

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

The only way I would support a property tax is if the city was going to declare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. We're not there yet.

We did quiz her quite thoroughly to make sure she wanted to do this. It's the close to a great chapter in Texas Tech athletics.

It is a tremendous success story, but the last chapters aren't yet written.

It is a positive voice in the U.S. and a positive force in the African-American community. And anything we can do to strengthen the local chapters also strengthens the organization nationwide.

It hurts everybody when somebody declares bankruptcy, ... It is harder on small businesses, no doubt, because they have fewer people to spread the work out of collection. It used to be that people would declare Chapter 7 and walk away from it. The objective of the new law is that people don't walk away from it and leave other people holding the bag.

Jalal Talabani

It is a historic day. We have closed a sad chapter in the history of the Kurdish people.

It is actually a new chapter in expansion negotiations,

Joseph Cirincione

I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.

Frank Lautenberg

When historians write the closing chapter of 20th century, they'll write about the critical leadership, Mr. President, you've provided,

With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins.

Hopefully this will close the chapter of this book. I hope we can work together to get this district back to where it was and better.

Jonathan Davis

I always felt like I was working for a record company. Now I feel like we have a true partner. I'm looking forward to this new chapter in our career.

I think United cut as much as they can after three years in Chapter 11. There's not a lot more they can do at this juncture. In our view they're probably positioned as well as they can be at this time.

Glenn Tilton

Today marks a new chapter for United, and it starts from a renewed position of strength.

Charles Jenkins

Today is the first day of the last chapter of my life, ... It is here on Sado island that I will hopefully live my remaining days with my wife and children.

Jim Knight

There is never closure. This is just another chapter being written. We've worked hard to look for the kids and if this turns out to be positive, then we're going to be very happy.

Howard Gordon

He was able to cite chapter and verse from the seasons.

Sophie Hannah

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We now think it's 80 percent to 90 percent, primarily to the recent surge in oil prices north of $60 a barrel,

Some Jaycee chapters are heavily involved in all the regional and national events the parent organization hosts. Others never send anyone. No one dictates that you have to do it. But the opportunity is there for some wonderful experiences.

Adam Baldwin

It could potentially be something big but come what may, we have closure on a very sad chapter of our lives when the show was cancelled. Now we have this movie that stands on its own and hopefully we're all part of something special and I think we are.

George Muller

It hasn't happened a lot, but we do get people who, when we check into it further, we discover have already been to shelter A or shelter B. We send them to chapter headquarters in Salt Lake City. Not everyone is the most ethical.

Spike Lee

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

Matt Blunt

It is important that we recognize the pioneering efforts of the suffragists, whose efforts lead to ratification of the 19th Amendment, ... Their commitment to equality and women's rights was an important chapter in the expansion of American Democracy and the enfranchisement of all our nation's citizens.

Sharon Kay Penman

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.