Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Jeremy Moore

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Marsha Thomsen

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Craig Venter

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Lance Armstrong

I tried to control the narrative.

Guy Maddin

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

Jeff Greenfield

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

Ian Mcewan

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.