Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonia Fraser

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

Jackie Collins

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Dick Francis

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Antonia Fraser

I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.

Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Virginia Woolf

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Neil Gaiman

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Deborah Eisenberg

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Margaret Atwood

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

Norwegian Proverb

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Sathya Baba

Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.

Alexandre Père

Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives

Rob Morosi

We have the money now, and there's no denying that the roads we're rebuilding need to be done.

Rafael Cruz

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

Mark McKinnon

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

Boris Labusov

It is completely absurd. We are tired of denying these assertions.

Kevin Renbarger

Manchester did a nice job of hitting the shots and winning that game. This was a game we thought we could win and needed to win in the conference. Now we are going to need some help in the conference. We have to do a better job on our interior defense. But, that also comes with denying the pass from out top.

Byron Miller

We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.

Aaron Gray

We drew up a play and Connecticut did a good job of denying me in the post. It's a tribute to great Connecticut defense.

Doug Hamilton

We'll evaluate the staff at the end of the season and make a decision. But there's been no denying I'm not overwhelmed with our record so far.

R. Ingram

We took it upon ourselves (to investigate) because it is a town that seems to be arbitrarily denying people their rights.