Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Maxwell

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

William Jennings Bryan

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Woody Allen

I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, which is cold comfort.

Woody Allen

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

William Friedkin

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

William Friedkin

There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

William Friedkin

I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.

Whitley Strieber

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Samuel Rogers

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Samuel Smiles

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

William Faulkner

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

William Faulkner

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

William Faulkner

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

Willem de Kooning

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Saint Francis de Sales

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Saint Francis de Sales

It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

Saint Francis de Sales

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Saint Augustine

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

Witold Gombrowicz

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Wladimir Klitschko

It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wilson Mizner

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

Will Rogers

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

Rudyard Kipling

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Warren Farrell

I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

Zach Braff

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

Zach Braff

When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker.

Yves Saint Laurent

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

William H. McRaven

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

William Hazlitt

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

William Hazlitt

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Wendell Berry

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed