Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Eddie Murphy

I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

Ato Essandoh

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

Denis Waitley

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Steven Wright

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

Carolyn Murphy

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

Chris Bosh

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Chris Bosh

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Mark Cuban

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Chandler Parsons

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Bill Walton

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Chauncey Billups

In the NBA, it's about patience.

Danny Ainge

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.

Chauncey Billups

It's not like a switch that I turn on (in the NBA Finals). I just want to be aggressive. The shots were going down for me.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.