Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Richelle Mead

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

William Mathews

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

William Wordsworth

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

William Wordsworth

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

William Wordsworth

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

William Blake

Celebrate your existence!

Whoopi Goldberg

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

William Hazlitt

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Lily Collins

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun shines today also.

Thomas Aquinas

Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.

Therese of Lisieux

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

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

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