Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Christine Pelosi

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Barry Ritholtz

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

William Shakespeare

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

Lance Berkman

I think I'll still retire before you will.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Scott Harrison

He doesn't seem very confident, talking about what he is doing after his retirement,

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Stan Johnston

I wouldn't say that. After the surgeons get finished, there will be a timetable.

Dean Thomas

The surgeons here are using minimally invasive techniques.

Man Ray

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Brian Anderson

It took a surgery to get me here.

John Walke

Streamlining is one thing. Amputation surgery is another -- and that's what we're talking about here.

Vonetta Flowers

Without that, the surgery would not have been possible.

Terry Greene

The surgery went pretty well. There was nothing unexpected.

Sandra Bernhard

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.