Famous Quotes & Sayings

Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

Right. My decision, on the future ... I'm sticking to my decision. It is not going to be dictated by nothing or nobody else.

Simon Mawer

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

E. B. White

Basically, when you play the top teams, you need nine players ready to go. We knew that going in, but it was unfortunate that the fouls dictated the game.

Michael Mann

Music is always key to me, whether it's 'Miami Vice' or not 'Miami Vice.' It's dictated by the story, about what Crockett and Tubbs and Isabella and Trudy are doing.

Chris Evans

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Azzedine Alaia

I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.

Sonya Hartnett

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

I think you'll find that minimum wage is pretty much dictated by the market.

I think the game situation probably dictated the way I was prepared to play today,

We expect to stabilize the price but price is dictated by the market.

I thought our serving dictated the pace of the game. We were able to take them out of their first-tempo offense.

Amy Heckerling

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

Matt Bomer

To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.

I saw Scott missed his putt at 18 and that dictated my strategy on 18. I knew I could three-putt and that's what I did. It's very gratifying to come to a place like this and win.

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

We dictated the game, and that's what we wanted to do.

Smoky Valley dictated the style of the game. We missed open looks and maybe the pressure got to us a little.

John Surtees

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

Especially the younger people (who) are used to, 'I can plug in my video game and play it now,' 'I can download music and hear it now,' 'I can take my iPod with me and listen to it wherever and whenever I want.' Going to the movies requires that you're on a time frame and in a location that's dictated by someone else.

A lot of it is dictated by banks. They won't finance anything that is not marketable.

Brian Billick

He thrives off that kind of challenge. Ray Lewis is too intelligent to let his self-worth be dictated by someone else. Yeah, there's always somebody who thinks you can do it better. And he's 30. But he has a number of dominant years left.

The ticket price was dictated by the promoter and may have been too high,

The sponsors are the ones who have dictated that.

The route to a destination is dictated by the start location of the one that makes the journey.

You had one team that was knocking shots down and the other who couldn't make any. They played great and are a great team. They dictated what we did instead of us controlling the tempo and doing what we wanted to do.

What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor. Everyone has a role to play in the community, everyone has a lead role, and I would think our funding would be dictated by that.

We tried to work for high percentage shots, we need to. Horton wasn't going to give us any easy baskets. They dictated the pace of the game pretty good.

The last three minutes of the first half pretty much dictated how this game was going to end up. If not for those last few minutes in the first half, we don't win this game.

Earl Watson

Their whole style of play dictated the second half.

Sam Cassell

Everyone on this team has to take a look in the mirror and be accountable for what they do. They dictated the whole game - probably 45 minutes. Down the stretch, we made some plays. It's a win in our column, we had lost three in a row. We'll take it.

Lleyton Hewitt

I played really well in the first set and dictated play from the start,

They were physical and they really dictated everything tonight offensively and defensively, and it shows in the final score.