Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

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

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.

Sharad Pawar

We want to close this chapter here and we do not want to take the issue any further.

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.

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

Hu Jintao

Let us work together to deepen our all-round co-operation, expand our common interests, and jointly write a new chapter in the China-Canada partnership.

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.

Robert Indiana

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

I am thrilled to be joining St. Thomas More and working with them to develop the next chapter in their organization to better serve the community.

more special to my heart than other jobs for sure. And it gives me a closer connection to the chapter itself by being involved like this.

Jacques Chirac

Never forget the victims of the darkest chapters of mankind's history,

Bob Graham

I have had a full and joyful and I hope productive life, and I intend to have other chapters that will meet those same standards,

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.

Sylvester Stallone

I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written.

Janez Drnovsek

I am glad that I received support of so many voters and that we can together start a new chapter in Slovenia's history,

Fritz Sauckel

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

There are problems, but the last chapter is far from over.

Steve Alford

We're still writing the final chapter of this book.

Billy Collins

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

Hilary Mantel

Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.

David Morrell

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.

Finally, the real T.O. story can be told. It's an important chapter in the long-term struggle for players' rights in the NFL.

When you have 200, 300, 400 people at a time this is the place to be. Otherwise, you need to come to a (Red Cross) chapter where we can handle people that drive in on their own.

With every opinion, it is closing another chapter in the story.

Beverley Nichols

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Today we're closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft.

Kelly Brown

The Red Cross has been inundated by the chapters with requests for materials. They're on back order.

Roger Enrico

When I was elected CEO, I said I hoped to have the perseverance to stay long enough to get the job done and the wisdom not to remain too long, ... By the end of 2001, I will have been a part of the PepsiCo team for 30 terrific years. I'm sure it will be surprising to very few people that I now feel it is time to move on to creating a new chapter in my life.

Tim Holden

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

The police estimate is between $600,000 to $700,000. To save $50,000, we spent how much? It's a sad chapter in the management of our government. It's very sad that this happened.

Bruno Senna

I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history.