Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Strauss

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Neil Kinnock

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Richie Benaud

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Nas

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Francine Prose

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Francine Prose

I'm in a rage all of the time.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Laura Anne Gilman

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

Ira Sachs

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Shinzo Abe

Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.

Lisa Unger

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Dick Cheney

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

David Satcher

We don't have a lot of time with inhalation anthrax,

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

James Keller

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."

James Keller

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

James Keller

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

James Keller

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

Vidya Balan

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

Paulo Coelho

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Billy Porter

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

Britney Spears

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.

Antonio Banderas

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

Alan Jackson

I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.

Keri Russell

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

Tim will be the first one here to tell you he made a mistake.

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Wayne Hale

Time will tell. This is not like the railroad.

Time will tell. That's why you play the games. I'm never comfortable. I always worry about getting beat.