Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joss Whedon

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

Joss Whedon

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...

Kevin J. Anderson

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

Kevin Kelly

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

Kendrick Meek

I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Keith Haring

Everybody draws when they are little.

Rachel True

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

Rachel Zoe

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

Rainbow Rowell

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

Rainbow Rowell

You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is eavesdropping.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Sean Parker

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Scilla Elworthy

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

Scoot McNairy

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

Liam Neeson

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

Liam Neeson

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

Les Baxter

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

Lena Horne

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

Laura Bell Bundy

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

L. Ron Hubbard

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

Terry Tempest Williams

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Terry Eagleton

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Terry Eagleton

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

Terry Eagleton

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.