Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Gold

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Kathleen Winsor

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

Keith Miller

When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them.

Charles Phillips

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

Dan Simmons

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

James Lane Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Frederick Douglas

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.

Dan Savage

They're used to it, ... It isn't the first time I've written about my family history or dragged everyone into a book.

Robert McDonald

There's a whole range of stories. Now and then we'll get some kid who's 14 dragged in by his mother. Occasionally it will be 'Bill' and then they're married to 'Bob,'

Adrian McKinty

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

John Hughs

(Pride Petroleum) is not a household name. A lot of energy stocks have had pretty good moves of late, ... up around 15-to-20 percent. Pride is kind of a smaller player in the area, just kind of a stock that has a good technical pattern, a good chart, and is being dragged up by the rest of the group, and with higher energy prices we think that one can do better.

Deanna Lassegard

People either walked up to us or someone dragged them. If you didn't come to us we never knew about you.

Mark Sue

Nortel is going to be dragged down in sympathy.

Doug Hattaway

The situation in Florida is so volatile that we don't want to be dragged into it.

Christopher Hill

One gets the impression there are some people back in Pyongyang who still have not dragged themselves over the line to be ready to give this up,

Todd Lodwick

I've trained really hard all year, and to be dragged down by one person really hurts. I've worked hard. I just have not had the opportunity to have four really strong guys all at the same time. It's not on my shoulders. I can only do what I can do, and hopefully that is jumping far and skiing fast.

John Fougere

We spend a lot of time saving the lives of inmates who, quite frankly, don't want to be saved.

Bruce Perry

We don't want to make the meals too good. The inmates might not want to leave.

Kim Coates

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

Warden Rustin

It was a combination of sheets that were braided together -- pieces of an inmates uniform that were braided together.

Dick Hawks

The inmates understand our concerns. They just want good, usable items.

Joe Schmidt

The inmates are very willing to do this type of work. It's something they can do to better serve the community.

Larry Todd

The inmates are doing everything they're told and spending plenty of time using squeegees and mops,

Eric Schlosser

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Danny Trejo

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Benjamin Spock

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Bill Wyman

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Peter Davis

We respect that Scott has work to do with Wales yet, but we need to know soon because we need to make a decision.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stanley

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Rose Johnson

They should be able to stand on their own after that.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Susan Wheeler

There wasn't anything that would stand in her way of doing something.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

John Goebel

There?s been a lot of misinformation and we want to get a straight story to people.

Ella Wilcox

Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.