Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Parry Aftab

Take their keyboards to work with you. They can live without the mouse, but not the keyboard.

Clifford Stoll

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Jay Watson

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

Jeff Ament

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Feist

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

Jerry Seinfeld

The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

Pharrell Williams

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Rhett Bomar

I did have my struggles, and I'm not going to shy away from that. But as the year progressed, I got more comfortable.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Agnes Varda

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Al Pacino

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Beyonce Knowles

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

Derek Jeter

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.