Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Sinclair

In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.

E. P. Thompson

You could've done a killer 20-minute anthology of Motown that would've been educational to kids who didn't know what Motown was. And the people who lived through Motown would've loved its nostalgic value. ... But music is the hardest way to appeal to a mass audience because it's highly fragmented and you never get anything that everyone likes.

Arnold Bennett

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have

Clive Barnes

With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

Martin Lewis

Give Me Everything! A Companion Anthology to the Beatles' First Film

David Mitchell

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

Noah Hawley

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.

Lemon Andersen

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.

Gail Carson Levine

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Carole James

Have you made up your mind? I decided that I would regret it for the rest of my life if I did not stand up the way my family stood up.

Jorge Posada

He just laid into me. Actually, we just collided. It was pretty ugly. It was either through me or around me. He decided to try to go through me.

James DePasquale

He just decided to withdraw his guilty plea and proceed with a jury on the guilt phase of the case.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Shawn Amos

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

Stephen Hess

I think the president might have defused the situation if he had invited her in instantly.

Jerry Brookings

I ran into Tito Jackson and told him I wanted to learn to play and he invited me to his house.

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

Carine Roitfeld

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

John Lackey

Nolensville has been invited to the party, and they didn't show up to the dance.

Evan Spiegel

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

Valerie Cruz

I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

Ma Jun

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Alan Garner

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

Sam Brownback

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Sam Harris

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.