Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Mathews

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Harry Mathews

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

Harry Mathews

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Harry Mathews

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

Harry Mathews

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Harry Mathews

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Harry Harrison

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Robbie Robertson

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

A.J. Ellison

Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess he didn't realize it would take off so well. It gave me something to do with my free time and it taught me to be accountable.

George Strait

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

George Tenet

another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.

Jerry Leiber

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Glenn Tipton

Each country has its own character, but heavy metal fans all over the world have a lot in common. It's fantastic.

Jon Lovitz

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Simon Newcomb

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

Rick Riordan

I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson

Tite Kubo

You might get lucky and die in some corner. ~Soi Fon

Timothy McVeigh

It might have changed my whole plan of operation if I'd read that one first.

Tim Henman

If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.

Sophia Amoruso

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

Tony Dungy

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Stewart Brand

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Stevie Wonder

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Reid Scott

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

Tim Ritchey

When I saw him this morning, he said 'hi' to me, and I said 'hi' to him.

Dominik Hasek

When I saw him in training camp, he didn't look like a special player,

Bob Baffert

When I saw 22, I thought that wasn't bad. I didn't want to see 21. She's so fast.

Ruth Rendell

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Daniel Roselle

But the more I thought about the questions, the more contradictions I saw in the leaders' answers. It was a semantic song and dance.

Angelina Jolie

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.