Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Gold

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Kathleen Winsor

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

Keith Miller

When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them.

Charles Phillips

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

Dan Simmons

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

James Lane Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Frederick Douglas

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Colin Channer

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Edith Wharton

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

William Shakespeare

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Bill Mumy

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Carolyn Murphy

I can't remember the last time I was bored.

Carolyn Murphy

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Charles Dickens

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Maria Bamford

I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed.

Marge Kennedy

Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Alan Moore

Life isn't divided into genres

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

James Cagney

There were many tough guys to play in the scripts that Warner kept assigning me. Each of my subsequent roles in the hoodlum genre offered the opportunity to inject something new, which I always tired to do. One could be funny, and the next one flat. Some roles were mean, and others were meaner.

Damien Chazelle

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

Casey James

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Drew Goddard

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

Thalia

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Eddie Izzard

The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.

Antony Sher

Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

Dee Dee Ramone

I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

William Shakespeare

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

Carolyn Wells

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Aaron Tveit

It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.

Charlotte Bronte

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Charlotte Bronte

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Charles Studd

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

Alan Rickman

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Alan Moore

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Chris Carmack

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

Chris Abani

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chloe Sevigny

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Chogyam Trungpa

In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.

Chinua Achebe

Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Lindy Ruff

It's the type of win you have to muster up with the injuries.

Jon Gruden

It was always a square-fist-in-the-mouth type of game.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Buster Davis

That's not him. He's not that type of guy.