Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Johnson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

John Hawkes

As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.

John C. Hawkes

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

John Updike

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Judith Rossner

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Richard Bach

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Actually SOON has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Danielle Steel

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.

Jonathan Franzen

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

Peter Zahler

As a species, the cheetahs are still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Kevin Bankston

As best we can tell, the NSA program is apparently the biggest fishing expedition ever devised, scanning millions of ordinary Americans' calls and e-mails for suspicious patterns.

Robert McCullough

As a lawyer, her knowledge of the schemes and apparent indifference to corruption seems like a very poor qualification as a regulator." ()

Andrew McDonald

As I understand the situation, it's pretty clear that this corporate entity is nothing more than a holding company for Mrs. Young's personal assets and to use that as a platform for claiming corporate management is a gross misrepresentation of her qualifications, ... To my knowledge, Castaway Bay has no office, no employees, no payroll. She is apparently the CEO of her family and to claim that gives her broad business experience to run a municipality is a sham.

Mick Jagger

Pricing a concert ticket is very different from pricing a Lexus or toothpaste. Apparently he's been fundraising outside, selling bootleg T-shirts and scalping tickets.

John Roberts

Promotion of the National Motto is apparently the foundation's next step.

Lynn Ford

Our downtown development funding mechanisms have been creative and innovative. There are all these different funding mechanisms that they have accessed that are not readily apparent to communities.

Taylor Swift

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

John Simley

People don't really look for the sticker on the product anymore. In the rest of the country, people have gotten conditioned to do without it, to no apparent ill effect.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Roger Launius

As a person excited by the prospect of returning to the Moon, I am thrilled that the United States is finally intent on moving beyond Earth orbit, ... Like everyone, I am curious to see how this plays out over the next few months as project definition becomes more solid. The devil will be in the details.

Ben Smith

The calls are always tough. We had the whole fall season to kind of figure this thing out. You want to get everybody healthy when it gets down that close so they can all show you what their value is. It becomes clear, but then what enters into it is the emotional human side. That's always gut-wrenching for everyone.

E. P. Thompson

The brain becomes a kind of sanctuary where the drugs can't follow,

Robert Redford

The business has changed, ... The business is what it is; it's a business. Therefore, it's hard to do the films like 'An Unfinished Life' that are more humanistic. I've always been selective, and usually like to do my own things. But as that narrows down, it becomes more and more difficult. But I love it. My love is performing and directing.

Stephanie Shain

The breed becomes the latest 'thing' to have, and people snatch them up like they are a trendy new purse or style of coat.

Robert Thompson

The big thing is going to be when it becomes standard equipment in cars.

John Ciardi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Ariel Sharon

deepening its involvement in incitement, violence and terror.

Peter Takirambudde

The government is deepening its crackdown in Ethiopia's rural areas, far from the eyes and ears of international observers.

David Allen

Once you've taken inventory, you can start to make sense of your runway. But then comes a second challenge: finding the time to do what you need to do.

Julius Rosenberg

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

Mike Darnell

Thanks to women like Ivana Trump, Demi Moore and Cher, the social norms are changing, and mature women are finding that true love can happen with younger men.

Kevin Smith

Sometimes you don't know how he's going to get it to you, but he does. He's very good at finding the guy with the hot half.

Randy Foye

Sometimes the rim looks like an ocean, ... My teammates were finding me in the right spots and I was talking the right shots.

Hermann Hesse

Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

Tom Collins

Right now, we're not finding any major supply problem in New York.

Larry Wood

Rather than finding new ways, they have to secure the ways we have. Security is the next greatest advance. When someone comes up with a super security plan, that's when you'll see the elimination of things that aren't so perfect. But how are you going to give a tip? We have to have cash.

Curtis Eccles

The second game was a lot better. We're looking forward to maybe finding that first win.

Jeremy Fishbein

People can question what they want, but Jeff finds a way to score goals regardless of who he is playing. Whoever gets him will be really happy. He always finds a way to succeed. He didn't start out getting things handed to him, but he sure found his way.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Mike Mills

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Brad Arnsberg

There's not any spots open in that bullpen, but he's got to understand what an integral part of this program he is. I've said to other guys, 'You're ready for the big leagues, but the big leagues aren't ready for you.' Hopefully he finds himself in that spot.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

O. Singh

Night and day, he is engrossed in worldly affairs, and even in his dreams, he finds no peace.

John McGahern

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

Mike Sherman

Bubba always finds a way to get on the field, ... Hopefully this is one of those ways this time.

J. C. Watts

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do

Kobe Bryant

Any player that was going to come down the lane at that point in time, I was going to let him know that he just can't walk through there. I think we as a team have to do a better job of establishing that.

James Marsden

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

David Schwimmer

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

Eli Roth

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

Darren Criss

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

Dick Vitale

As long as he doesn't take my job.

Johnny Damon

Randy did his job to keep us in the game. We need to score more than just two runs.

Source Unknown

Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

John Challenger

People see themselves moving (between) too many jobs today, too many companies.

Samuel Buell

They stated a theme at the outset and they stuck to it.

Jim Bowden

We said from the outset that we wanted to wait until new owners were in place. We also said there would come a time where we couldn't wait any longer, and that time has come.

Brad Adams

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Fred Hoyle

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

Roy Williams

I've rarely watched film of T.O. or Jerry,

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.