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.

Tillie Olsen

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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.

Margaret Atwood

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Justin Cronin

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Katee Sackhoff

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Heidi Julavits

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional 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.

David Walliams

I was probably about 12 and The Young Ones wasn't meant for 12-year-olds, but there's always that element in kids where they want to watch the naughty comedy that's not for them.

Randa Haines

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

Jason Wiles

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Adam Sandler

My comedy is different every time I do it.