Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Lee Ryan

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

Mark Johnson

It was so important that this not be an imaginary land.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Jeremy Newberry

I think the life expectancy for offensive linemen isn't great. For me, having young children, it's a somber thought. But it's part of the job.

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Adam Ereli

And obviously this strategic partnership has an important role in that.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

William Cowper

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

George W. Bush

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Jennifer Ehle

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

Isaac Barrow

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.