Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Young

This design works with that site. It assumes that development would still take place.

Michael Burgess

This assumes that everything will proceed forward in a 'timely' way with the French material becoming available for my use very soon and all those who have their parts to play doing so promptly when requested.

Andrew Lloyd

They're like my kids and we are a real family. Everyone assumes my son is going to play basketball but there is a chance he won't be able to do a lot of things. We won't know until he's about a year-and-a-half old, but he is great kid. He's brought us all a lot closer together.

Stanley Hauerwas

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Patch Adams

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

Alice McDermott

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Brian Clapp

People tend to fall into two camps. One assumes the worst. They're going to cut back all of their spending to the point of saying, 'I'm not going to eat lunch tomorrow.' The other is, 'This is great! I've got a windfall! I'll take the next two months off!

Michael Harris

Some workers would be wasting time in other ways anyhow. This estimate also assumes that they aren't going to be making up that time, that they aren't going to get all their work done. It's an outdated model that they're using.

Jack Ablin

The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It's what the statement lays out about the pace of future rate hikes that will be important, because that's what people are thinking about. I think the inflation reports will also be pivotal next week.

Diana Gabaldon

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Donald Selkin

It's two things. The old cliche is that the market hates uncertainty. So this removes the uncertainty.

Rob Kelly

It's the cup, and all the old cliches will come out - and they are all true. We are looking forward to it and we will give it a right good go.

Michael Mann

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Brian Tompkins

It's a cliche to say, but Shannon really leads by example. It was a wonderful effort from a wonderful player.

E. B. White

It's a cliche in the army, but people always say you'll fight as you train, so we're taking our training very seriously and working very hard so we will fight as we train.

Kevin Connolly

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'

Damon Galgut

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Jennifer Aniston

The sad thing, for me, is the way it's been reduced to a Hollywood cliche -- or maybe it's just a human cliche.

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Phil Klay

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

Nikolay Sevastiyanov

We're starting to look at the moon as a source of fuel. Maybe it's science fiction right now, but we need to start moving in that direction.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Ben Browder

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Bill Gates

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Frederik Pohl

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Chris Capuano

It seems like we've been scoring a lot of runs in my starts. Even when I haven't pitched well, we've been able to find ways to win.

Alan Trammel

A lot of things aren't going our way. You score that many runs in the first inning and then give up six, it's depleting and it takes its toll on you.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Brenda Ball

There were so many times we didn't think she would make it through the night, so many runs to the hospital.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

FKA twigs

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

Ray Preston

That's what they do. They'll make eight-point runs on you. That's why they're No. 1 in (the) section.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

James Mullen

As you can appreciate, this is more complicated than a typical drug launch.

Dennis Robinson

It's not the typical setting. We wanted a homey atmosphere.

Erik Skabelund

This is typical this year -- where there's one down, there's five.

Bob Podges

It was a typical Stow-Barberton game. Back-and-forth, down-to-the wire, that's how they all are.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Daryl Hall

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

James Hall

Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.