Famous Quotes & Sayings

If he had had some more time on the clock, I think he would have taken him down. The kid was crafty and did a nice job. Tommy had him in a headlock, but time expired before he could put him on his hip and toss him.

Fede Alvarez

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Farrah Fawcett

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

It's always fun for the kids. They love glue, they love glitter. We've always had success with our craft times. ... We do them occasionally instead of family story time.

Peter Guber

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Randall Jarrell

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

John Fowles

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

And as far as a team liking you, that's just how it is; either they like you or they don't. What you can do is make it easier for them to like you. And it's easier to like you if you respect the game, respect yourself and work at your craft every day.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I take my craft very seriously.

Joshua Foer

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Mary Oliver

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Pierre Beaumarchais

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Ronald Reagan

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Henry James

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Joss Whedon

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Ralph Ellison

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Robert Bly

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Rod Stewart

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

Sandra Tsing Loh

All autobiography is fiction.

Steve Lacy

Make the drummer sound good.

Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be.

Tori Spelling

We are a very crafty family.

Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Virginia Woolf

Life stand still here.