Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moliere

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Jack Kerouac

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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.

Mary Oliver

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

Peter Guber

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

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.

Martin Luther

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Paul Newman

Fill the moment and find variety.

Pam Grier

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

Lulu

Craft your love into everything

Lizzie Brochere

In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!

Patti LaBelle

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

For the past two years in the Craftsman Truck Series, we've been trying to learn everything we can about NASCAR racing.

Nancy Kerrigan

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Martin Rees

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Theodore Roethke

Wake the happy words.

Rod Stewart

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

Sandra Tsing Loh

All autobiography is fiction.

Walter Mosley

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

Virginia Woolf

Life stand still here.

Ryan Tedder

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be.

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.