Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Peter Ackroyd

Freud was just a novelist.

Leslie Fiedler

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Rachel Cusk

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Juliet Marillier

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Jonathan Kellerman

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Hilary Mantel

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

John Banville

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

John Banville

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Jacques Maritain

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Manly Hall

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Terry Pratchett

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Werner Herzog

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.