Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Marc Grunert

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Saad Qindeel

Any comments regarding the contents of the constitution from a non-Iraqi source are not going to be helpful.

Scott Reed

Romney?s comments have not gone unnoticed, and his visit to Phoenix to raise some money has raised some eyebrows.

Howard Mann

It would be unfair for me to make comments about an order I haven't seen yet.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Ehud Barak

These comments have, of course, no connection to reality, and it would have been better if they would have never been said,

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Todd Akin

This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves.

Katherine MacMurray

This game we tried to focus on positive comments to help our players and that helped win the game.

Bill Belichick

You would have to talk to the Jets. I have no comment on their job or their situation or anything else. Anything they have to say about it, I'm sure they would be more than happy to give you that information.