Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Wilson

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

Mike Wilson

I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.

Anthony Powell

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Mitchell Reiss

I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.

Mike Wilson

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

Mike Wilson

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

Mitchell Reiss

And it's not surprising that there should be disagreement - it'd be a little surprising if there was complete consensus on any foreign policy issue.

Mitchell Reiss

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Mike Wilson

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Lynn Coady

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

Gary Waters

JR is in great spirits it's just something that we're just going to have to let heal. It happened where he just planted the wrong way and it just cracked on him.

Randy Hayes

He was able to crack the nut to get the B-17 here,

Darrel Mitchell

He's a character. In practice he's cracking jokes all the time to get us going. When we're going in practice, if somebody fouls him he'll exaggerate it and make all kinds of noise. It's just simple stuff like that that makes us laugh. He's a big, great guy.

Stephen Morris

I was a fan when Cracker was last on TV so it's great to be doing the music for the new series.

Emily Mortimer

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

Shane Casley

He hasn't made a final decision, but I think he's leaning towards having another crack at it.

Dom Starsia

He has a strong left hand and the potential to crack one of the top units. Kevin is big and strong, a willing student and a quick study.

Pat Joyner

He drove up and was searched, and he had some crack on him.

Helen Araromi

Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.

Natalie Forbort

It could hurt other students who might want financial aid. There isn't an endless supply of money.

Hamlin Garland

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.

David Hudson

There is an endless supply of speech that seems to offend these days.

Mark Margolis

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.

Roman Polanski

Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,

Miranda July

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

Sarah Dessen

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Michael Hurst

Hannah is playing a lead role in this piece. The story is told entirely through her. That's a huge journey for her.

George Pierce Baker

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Antonio Tarver

His words to me were: 'I wrote the script with you in mind.' I am truly excited about the possibility of playing Mason Dixon, and we're getting ready to work an entirely different stage, baby.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Carol Raulston

I think it's entirely appropriate that they take stock of where we are right now.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Jim Silver

There is no comparison. 'Star Wars' is on an entirely different level.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Sophie Marceau

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Sophie Marceau

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Sophie Marceau

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Dr. Karmanova

This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German languages.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

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.

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.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Alice McDermott

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Paolo Ferri

It is very surprising to me that they didn't give me these very important documents.

R. L. Stine

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Nikki Giovanni

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Robert Heaney

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

Michael Darda

There was nothing too surprising in what he said.

William Wordsworth

A tale in everything.

Polybius

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Susan Fletcher

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Stephen King

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Woody Allen

I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

William Wordsworth

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.