Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Faulkner

And that's how the book grew. That is, I wrote that same story four times. None of them were right, but I had anguished so much that I could not throw any of it away and start over, so I printed it in the four sections. That was not a deliberate tour de force at all, the book just grew that way. That I was still trying to tell one story which moved me very much and each time I failed, but I had put so much anguish into it that I couldn't throw it away, like the mother that had four bad children, that she would have been better off if they all had been eliminated, But she couldn't relinquish any of them. And that's the reason I have the most tenderness for that book, because it failed four times.

Erin Hoeflinger

During the past week, we have all anguished over the suffering that Hurricane Katrina has brought on in the Gulf Coast, and particularly New Orleans. There are countless thousands of families who have lost everything as a result of this natural disaster. In an unprecedented crisis like this, it is more important than ever that relief agencies, like the Red Cross, have the resources they need to undertake this massive effort.

Hilary Mantel

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

Breyten Breytenbach

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

Lesley Garrett

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Paul Lambert

You have to take your medicine and go into the next game. It is easy for people to criticise but as long as we don't let our heads go down, I'll go with that.

Luis Suarez

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.

Idries Shah

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Joe Gibbs

I am looking for somebody to really establish themselves as the quarterback, to take over and take off with the team,

Aamir Khan

I am happy with the judgment because it will help establish the ground reality on this issue (rehabilitation) within three months.

Sarah Palin

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

Vladimir Lenin

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

Michael Levine

In order to establish early, good, sleep habits, there must be consistency,

Beth Young

I guess I wanted this team to be thought of as scrappy and as not ever giving up. You have to establish yourself. I like the type of team I have.

Lisa Peterson

You want to establish a relationship with a breeder or a store.

Richard Boucher

The goal that they have is to help Iraqis establish security. That is a goal we support and we will keep talking to them about it.

S. Hughes

We're known as a physical team, and we went out and try to establish rhythm in the game and let them know that we were there.

Sydney Wayser

I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.

Robert Parker

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.

Lou D'Allesandro

I think it's a tragedy when you have things like this that interrupt the flow of good legislative policy.

Dave Huppert

I think the guys are just getting in the flow of the season. If it were the middle of June and we were playing this way I'd be upset.

Larry Coker

I think we're better than we're playing. What that potential is, I don't know. I think our receivers are good enough. We're not playing as well as we can and I think we've got to give them more opportunities to get them in the flow and get them playing better.

Angus MacMillan

It is hard to say where we go from here, but this (fund) money will keep flowing in.

George Eliot

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience

Oprah Winfrey

I did send flowers and I did send a note

Paul Simon

Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Patricia Watkins

When he says he doesn't know, it's the honest-to-God truth.

Nick Pappas

I think what it says is that Telstra Stadium is out of sight, out of mind,

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. What he says goes.

Simon Reuben

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Robert Schwentke

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

Werner Herzog

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Katie Couric

I know. I want to see it on the big screen though, you know?

Eoin Colfer

I'm kind of in the dark. All I know is that the screenplay is finished.

Ridley Scott

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Casey Kasem

The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting compliments.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.