Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Robert Bly

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

Valerie Trierweiler

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

Valerie Trierweiler

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

Van Morrison

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

Upton Sinclair

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

Tyra Banks

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

William Goldman

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

William Penn

Let us see what love can do.

Gary Clark, Jr.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

Caroline Wozniacki

I do my best, and that's all I can do.

Mike Farrell

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Michael Phelps

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

Paula Abdul

All you can do is the best you can do.

Michel Faber

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.