Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Michel Faber

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Julia Cameron

I am due at the page.

Jesse Eisenberg

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

Jon Krakauer

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

Jim Gaffigan

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Gil Kane

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Gillian Jacobs

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

George W. Bush

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

George Steiner

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Kresley Cole

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!

Irvine Welsh

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Harry S Truman

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Grace Paley

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Michelle Moran

I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.

John Grisham

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Margaret Atwood

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Mary Higgins Clark

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Emilie Autumn

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Melanie Chisholm

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.

Genevieve Bujold

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

Joe Pantoliano

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Emmanuelle Beart

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Neil Diamond

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Terry Pratchett

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.