Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Dave Rubio

I think it really speaks well of the program, when you're preparing your assistants and they're put in a position to become head coaches.

Colin Roy

I also think he won't be a dictator but that he'll be an open coach. He wants his assistants to do their jobs. He also has good insight as to what is the purpose of high school athletics and what his kids will have learned when the season is over.

Ryan Bishop

I think they have one of the best offensive lines I've seen. I'm telling one of my assistants in the second quarter, you take those guys to University of Utah or BYU and they're as good as some of those guys. They move their feet, they block. They're very good.

Pat Alexander

He dispels the myth that good guys can't win. He brings out loyalty in people. All of his assistants have been there for quite awhile and want to stay loyal to him and the program. He's a person you would want to coach your son, a great motivator to young people.

Trey Gowdy

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Jeff Langrehr

I know late in the game, one of the assistants said Matt Simmons must have had 15 rebounds. Every time we needed a big one, he got it. He plays like a horse out there.

Jerry Fuqua

I knew we would probably start slow (offensively). The one thing we stressed this week was defense. A constant effort on defense should be there all the time. That's what kept us in the game early. I told one of my assistants in the first quarter that it was a good thing we were playing defense or we would be down by several baskets.

Jack Higgins

The guys did listen to him and the assistants and did follow his orders. But I don't think coach Nee knew his players. There was a lack of communication. I didn't like how he wouldn't give his players a chance to recuperate from making a mistake. He takes you right out of the game.

Bobby Douglas

This has got to be the greatest class I've had. My assistants were a major factor in our success. Give the credit to them.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Russell Baker

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Brand

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Triple H

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

William Wordsworth

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.