Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Julia Sweeney

[Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

Julia Ward Howe

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Julian Barnes

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Tommy Bowden

There's another level this team needs to get to from a hitting and toughness standpoint.

There was a lot of pressure on these companies, and that probably hit home with most of them.

At least some of the problem is the artificially high sales last year, which is making this year's sales look a lot lower than they should.

Steve Finley

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

At four, you have to play the highest low seed, which is usually the sleeper team. The third seed to me is much better. You actually get the lowest seed.

At first I thought it was kids playing around, but then I realized he was hitting his grandmother with a pipe.

at an important moment in American history when our need to safeguard military secrets has never been more critical.

As much as we might like to recoup our costs, that's not something we can arbitrarily do. It's a highly competitive business.

ABSENTEE, n. A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.

Charlie Manuel

A big hit there. Then we could have made things interesting.

About the worst we can do is hit them with a notice of violation.

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Dusty Baker

The more times you come through, the more times you think you're going to come through. We like to see him come up with runners on base. He has a way of getting hits at the right time.

Ray Bradbury

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Serge Lang

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Serena Williams

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

Serena Williams

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

Sherman Hemsley

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Seth Grahame-Smith

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Sebastian Horsley

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Tom Colicchio

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Tom Cruise

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

Toks Olagundoye

I pretty much only wear high heels.

Tom Allen

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Solange Knowles

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

Slick Rick

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

Snoop Dogg

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.