Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

William Kent Krueger

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Vikram Seth

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

John Boyne

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Dan Kammen

The assumptions made by some of the authors were not based on the best data, or were just a little bit too convenient, and had a strong impact on the results.

Scott Turow

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

Paul Fleischman

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Paul Kane

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Mikhail Sholokhov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Victor Batista

We have to work on starting hard from the beginning. We've been focused on connecting with the setter on offense. We need to dominate in the middle.

Rory Stewart

I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.

Todd Burns

We will actually energize the project in June. That means we will be connecting it with the rest of the transmission grid.

Kimberly Walton

Users with infected workstations connecting to their corporate IT network can spread the virus to the corporate environment.

Pierre Omidyar

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Freddie Roach

Manny relied too much on connecting with that left hand of his (Pacquiao). He wanted a homerun.

Al Harris

It feels good. It's youth connecting with their elders.

Harlan Coben

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Deborah Fallows

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

H. Hart

We've learned a lot during the years. The weather this time of year is always unpredictable. One weekend will be real pretty and then festival weekend it can rain and turnout will be down. Overall we have been lucky with the weather. People have really supported us.

Mark Urman

You can have them all without the festival being an out-and-out market. Even a smattering of the possibility of a market presence is significant.

Stella Pence

With all the festivals out there in the world today, everyone is here.

Robert Hurwitz

We don't see the festival as an end-point for these shows, ... It's a launching pad, a stepping stone for productions.

Tony Long

We'll have a bang-up festival next year. Not that this one won't be great.

E. B. White

One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I thought it sounded like a great idea.

Ethan Thillo

I wouldn't say we're the most important Latino film festival in the country, but we have improved our quality year after year.

Douglas Booth

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

David Lambert

He mentioned it six months ago, and I thought it was a great idea. Natchez is a great walking town, so it's a great place for a festival like this.

Ben Barnes

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

William Gibson

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Dave Miley

We could have gotten out of here with a split if we were able to execute.

Avery Johnson

We could have gotten a little lethargic. We won't rule it out.

Randy Houser

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Paula Creamer

I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

Pierce Brosnan

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

Stacy Baker

We had our chances. We just never could get that big hit. We should have gotten Kate more runs.

Anita McLane

We were so young last year and this year playing with the same group has helped. They are playing real well and have gotten better over the season.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.