Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Donald Barthelme

Write about what you're afraid of.

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

Don DeLillo

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

Don DeLillo

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Don DeLillo

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Doris Lessing

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

Doris Lessing

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

Doris Lessing

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Henry Rollins

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

Henry Rollins

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Henry A. Kissinger

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

Helen Gurley Brown

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

Helen Gurley Brown

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Henry Cavill

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

Helmut Newton

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Heber J. Grant

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.