Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Guido van Rossum

Invariably, you'll find that if the language is any good, your users are going to take it to places where you never thought it would be taken.

Michiel Huisman

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Annie Schmidt

A dutch novel is like a lame coitus

Kate Warne

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market. The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Kate Warne

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market, ... The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Michiel Huisman

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

John Green

I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

Kami Garcia

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

James Patterson

We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.

Benjamin Franklin

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

James Thurber

You name the issue. There would be a lot of oversight hearings. He will be a true lame duck.

Ambrose Bierce

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Tom Waits

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

Megan Fox

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.