Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Valerie June

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Abraham Lincoln

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Brandon Flowers

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.

Nayvadius Cash

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

Patrick Quinn

We're really not trying to make it miserable for people. But it's burning electricity. Our quick estimate is that it's costing us $100,000 per year.

Randy Williams

We're really looking for the cooperation of the public that's what makes this work. Hopefully they can hold off on burning until the conditions change a little bit.

Paul O'Grady

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Sydney Smith

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

Geno Auriemma

(Mel) has an intensity level about her that keeps the fire burning inside, she never lets the fire die. Nicole's the same way. We had two guys guarding that kid that don't get tired. She could have run them off screens all night and those kids aren't going to get tired.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Chuck Hagel

The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.

Hayao Miyazaki

The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.

James Campbell

The acquisition of Shell Coal is a major strategic step in this regard, and represents a springboard for Anglo Coal into Australia.

Brian Jennings

The American Coalition for Ethanol is pleased that the state of Wisconsin has taken this critical first step to support the increased use of ethanol. The state has developed a strong local ethanol industry, and ensuring that much of that Wisconsin-made ethanol is used in Wisconsin is one way to secure its continued success and to make the state less dependent upon outside sources of energy.

Carl Pope

Today the Senate gave the oil industry and (Sen.) Stevens the lump of coal they deserved.

Vlado Buckovski

We joined that coalition since the country was under attack, now we are more useful as the opposition,

Charles Gabriel

Just because Democrats control committees doesn't mean they have an easy working coalition. There's still a coalition of conservative Democrats who will work with Republicans on key issues.

Joschka Fischer

Me? Joining a coalition under Merkel? Look, Merkel will not be chancellor.

Zhao Tiechui

We can at most keep 10,000 or so small coal mines.

Stephen Wright

We have now got a coalition government which may or may not include some anti-business types like the Greens.

Muqtada Sadr

We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,

Felix Magath

We were so sure we were the better team, we were so sure we would score, then we were handed one ourselves.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus handed down in succession the royal sages knew this (Karma-yoga). After a long time the science of Karma-yoga was lost from this earth.

Jack Kirby

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Mary Johnson

He is the same in person as he is in public. He didn't have anything handed to him on a silver platter.

Matt Winkler

I can't lie. That was a huge motivational factor. We talked about not playing Fieldcrest basketball. They handed us our lunch (earlier).

Chris Bell

We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.

Carl Erskine

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.

Manuel Luna

More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.

Chris Thompson

She didn't know me. She didn't know my family, ... She just handed me the envelope. She said, 'This is for you and your family,' and she walked away.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

Barry McGuire

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

Josie Russo

We made it look as Italian as we could inside.

Karl Lagerfeld

Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everything by hand.

Renato Turano

Italy has been split in half. This is an opportunity for Italians to come together, whether we're in Italy or living abroad.

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Diane von Furstenberg

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

David Sedaris

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

David Suchet

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

George Vecsey

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rahul Dravid

He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

Matt Cutts

We'll probably also need some assurances that such pages won't reappear on the sites before the domains can be re-included.

Einar Stefferud

MHTML makes sure that everything you need for that page is in the bundle.

Maya Angelou

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Chauncey Billups

Like I've been telling him, when they page you, you'd better be ready to pick up and answer. Right now, he's going to get that page.

Fred Thompson

To have 27 pages ripped out that were under a congressional subpoena, and then not taking vigorous steps to find out what happened, is outrageous,

Brad Hutt

We're on the same page with pitch selection. It's been fantastic.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Richard Daley

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Philip Schultz

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

Ogden Nash

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Chris Souder

When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now.

Ann Powers

He was wailing and snot was just pouring out of his nose.

Don Bluth

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Edouard Manet

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Albert Pike

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

Dale Carnegie

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

Charles Lamb

Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.

John Denham

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Wayne Coyne

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Sam Allardyce

I was at the game, but he never rang me.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Chris Robinson

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

C. S. Lewis

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Russell Smith

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

Mark Sheppard

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Thomas Schaaf

We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.