Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Keith Miller

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Kate DiCamillo

Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.

David Harris

I can go a year before an oil change.

Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Margaret Halsey

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

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.

Mack Strong

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

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

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

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

John Maynard Keynes

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.