Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

C. S. Lewis

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Carrie Vaughn

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Carl Reiner

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Bill Bryson

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

C. S. Lewis

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catie Curtis

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Cecelia Ahern

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.