Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Rob Thurman

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.

Rob Zombie

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Richard Baxter

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...

Rex Reed

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

Richard Selzer

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

Vera Wang

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

Robert Penn Warren

Everything seems an echo of something else.

Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

William Hazlitt

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

Jake Gyllenhaal

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Eric Hoffer

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Marshall McLuhan

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

Knut Hamsun

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Robert Mugabe

There are things one must do for oneself.

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Robert Bresson

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Maurice Chevalier

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.