Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

Joan D. Vinge

The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.

Jared Diamond

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Oliver Herford

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Irving Wallace

Read all you can about it, interview experts on it, even travel to the sites of the story to guarantee authenticity and get a feel for the background.

Sarah Zettel

Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.

Shelby Foote

During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament.

William Greider

A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.

Chaim Potok

Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.

Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Michael K. Williams

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

P. J. Harvey

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.

Geoff Johns

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Terry Teachout

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Mike Martz

I do know some of the player issues that we have, and the guys that played well and did not play well. That will be confronted and corrected, and if we have to make a change, we'll make a change.

Lawrence Woodward

Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three said something rude to his girlfriend, and he verbally confronted them.

John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with a problem

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Harper

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Nancy Corona

Every refuge has a reason for being. One of the main reasons this refuge was established was for the migratory birds.

Bob Norris

We just don't have that many earthquakes under the main part of Portland.

Mike Bibby

We got stops when we needed to and that's the main thing. Our stops turned into transition points.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Rafael Benitez

The strikers will score goals, because they have quality and they are working hard,

Michael Robertson

The SWAC West will be strong this season with every team returning at least two quality starters.

Kenneth Billingsley

AIG is still going to be a strong company. You can't find any better quality than AIG.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Jerry Moore

We could treat it like a snow day and have just the drive-through open.

Lori Worley

We had a really warm winter, and then we get snow the first day of spring.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

Confucius

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Daniel Woodrell

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Richard Strauss

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Dan Aykroyd

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Alva Myrdal

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Conrad Black

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

David Attenborough

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

Annie Dillard

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.