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.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Paul Cullen

I've put in a complaint to the match commissioner, but it's not going to change the result.

Michael Carrick

I've not even thought about that game, though I want to be in the squad. There's not a lot of time to get a place in the World Cup but things change so quickly.

D. James

I've really seen him change over the past two months. You could just notice his presence more, how physical he was and what a leader he was. He keeps getting better and better.

Jerome Booth

It would be a good opportunity to signal a change in interest rate policy. This is a country with single-digit inflation and an interest rate of 20 percent. It's ridiculous.

Peter Hall

It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.

G. H. Hardy

It would be logical to conclude there will be a change of some kind in the status quo.

Lorenzo Codogno

It would take a big global shock to change the prospects for at least modest growth in Europe.

Scott Hamilton

It was the strongest signal possible to the market that Boeing was here to stay. It also energized the workforce and led to a complete change in attitude.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Jim Phillips

I think he's the right person at the right time in the right job.

H. G. Wells

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.