Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Mike Moran

The report should be viewed as a solid one.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Rick Riordan

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

William J. Clinton

[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

Werner Heisenberg

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Robert Pattinson

I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Rick Springfield

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Steven Strogatz

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Robbie Williams

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Ted Rall

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

John Searle

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Philip Johnson

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

John Dos Passos

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

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.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.