Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Bob Reed

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

Paul Aiken

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

Patricia Cornwell

It's criminal if successful authors don't support literacy. I challenge them all to write a check.

Chris Van Allsburg

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

M. J. Rose

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Helen Oyeyemi

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Alexander Rumyantsev

I support diplomatic solutions to all issues at those talks.

Christopher Hill

Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet,

Kurtis Blow

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Jack O'Connell

Awarding a student a diploma without the necessary skills and knowledge does a great disservice to that student.

Elliott Abrams

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Werner Herzog

I love nature, but against my better judgment.

Rhonda Byrne

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

H. Hunt

It's all surgical judgment, ... You don't want to be someone's on-the-job training on this one.

John Darby

There's a small part of it that's judgment calls, ... but I think in today's world, when penalties are issued, there's no judgment about it. It's black-and-white.

Jonathan Chen

I try not to make judgmental remarks on the little peculiarities of a youth. In fact, when I am conversing with a child, I find myself having the same sort peculiarities.

Tim Smith

People tend to pass judgment on teenagers too quickly.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Dan Glickman

The organic classification is not a judgment about the quality or safety of any product. Organic is about how it is produced. It is a process issue,

Jeff Lyons

We had the judgment before they did the seizure.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Wayne White

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Stephen King

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Steven Pressfield

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Esther Hicks

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

W. C. Fields

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Zoe Saldana

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Josh Bowman

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

Morrie Schwartz

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too —even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.