Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Gad Elmaleh

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

Zoe Kravitz

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'

Vanessa Hudgens

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Emma Roberts

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Edward Norton

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

David Beckham

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Rebel Wilson

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

CC Sabathia

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Carrie Vaughn

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Jeffrey Passel

The picture we get is that of young, working families.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Gene Scott

The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Ken Zipovsky

We received reports from many sources that inappropriate pictures were being taken.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Harry Conover

We then get a better picture of the situation and are able to look at what we have written in our plan.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Kenzo Tange

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Gail Sheehy

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Nicole Krauss

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

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.

Matt Silverman

When you see the word devil, you think evil.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.

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.