Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Fleming

A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps

Joe McCarthy

The game started just about a half hour before their usual bedtime of 7:30. I'm thrilled we got to see half the game. Even if we only saw 10 minutes, it would've been worth it at 10 bucks a ticket.

Michael Longenberger

It's very easy to see those on a bedtime schedule and those not.

Ken Follett

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Allen Covert

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Melanie Payne

This program has been a tremendous help. Dylan has to have his bedtime story every night and it usually ends up being five or six bedtime stories. This has really helped him develop intellectually.

Eula Biss

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Jim Schmitz

He comes out early all the time. But he's struggling.

Amir Peretz

He (Sharon) also insisted that we must go to early elections as early as possible.

Neil Gershenfeld

In a way, the Fab Labs are havens for inventive outliers in society.

Andre Geim

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Loesje

I had a nice memory.....now the next one.

Margaret Tennis

In memory of Peggy, who was such a teacher, this loom will be in her memory.

Scott Reynolds

It's still a tropical storm but it won't be much longer. By midnight, it should be a memory.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Virgil Virgil

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Finding Nemo

Dory: I suffer from short term memory loss. It runs in my family... At least I think it does... Where are they?

Dr. Pitman

We are trying to reopen the window of opportunity to modulate the traumatic memory.

Lisa Payne

We have no volatile memory, so the tag can go to 'sleep' and still monitor conditions.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Hartley Coleridge

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alger Hiss

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

Don DeLillo

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.