Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Sinclair

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

Charles Dickens

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

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.

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.

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.

Sylvester McCoy

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

Stella Pence

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Laurie Levenson

We don't usually think of them as literary giants.

Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Amy Heckerling

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Neil Flynn

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Tarantino, per se, but I like several of his movies very much, probably 'Reservoir Dogs' the most of them.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Kent Beck

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Tony Scott

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Tom Smith

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we're going to give them a whole lot of pictures.

Stephen Foster

This picture represents all the contributors to the arts, taken in 1988.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Peter Bart

The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Samuel Goldwyn

("You say you've never made a picture before?") Yes, but that's our strongest weak point

Hulk Hogan

You need to know the whole picture of this business.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

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.

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.

Charles Bukowski

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

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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.

Gail Sheehy

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?