Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Dee Brown

Until I quit writing and I don't know when that will be, I will always be reading something that has to do with what I'm working on.

Richard Bach

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Orhan Pamuk

At some point they figured out that you can win elections with a pro-European policy because the voters hope this will improve their lives.

Serge Lang

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

John C. Hawkes

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

Edmund White

There was a certain hum that would be generated by the book when I was writing well; I'd stop working the instant that hum snapped off.

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Steve Silverthorn

I've always said when you start thinking, that's when you screw yourself up. You've got to quit with the thinking and just stay in the moment.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Tammy Anderson

During the orientation, we set a quit date. But they don't quit until several weeks into the program.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jamie Farr

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.