Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Alfred Korzybski

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Desmond Tutu

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Deepak Chopra

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

Andie MacDowell

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Amy Carmichael

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.

Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Ringo Starr

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

Katherine Paterson

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Julian Barnes

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Mark Twain

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Martin Landau

I've always been interested in science fiction

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Dave Attell

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Albert Brooks

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

Andre Braugher

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

Tom Hiddleston

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Jenna Fischer

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

Jasper Fforde

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Garry Marshall

I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,

Dave Foley

Maybe we will, and we'll take the entire comedy industry with us.