Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Drea De Matteo

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Flannery O'Connor

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Gregory Maguire

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

Indira Gandhi

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Edward Carpenter

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Ronald Fisher

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Samuel Johnson

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Peter Morgan

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Paolo Bacigalupi

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Frank Beamer

We're not a turnover team. It was just kind of freaky tonight.

Alyssa Milano

I think people freak out about (turning 30) when they don't feel like they've accomplished what they need to by then, ... I wasn't freaked out at all. Just excited.

Joss Whedon

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

Kaley Cuoco

I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

Paul Cummings

He's dedicated; he works hard; he puts in the time. And on top of it all, he's a freak of nature strength-wise. It's unbelievable. His speed and strength are just phenomenal.

Shellie Samuels

He shot people on TV, he shot people in the movies, but he never really shot people in real life, ... It freaked him out.

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Raf Simons

I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

Jason Johnson

Freaky things happen, and it seems like it's been happening to us lately,