Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Ogden Nash

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Shi Zhengrong

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shaun Cody

It's painful. It's really frustrating, and it makes you want to shut it down. You want to, as a player, say 'I can't take this no more.' But I'm a professional.

Kevin Roy

Sunday at 6 p.m., we shut it down.

Brandon Rush

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

Jonathan Evison

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.