Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

R. D. Laing

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

P. J. O'Rourke

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

Ken Follett

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Bong Joon-ho

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Ben Harper

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

Ani Difranco

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

Aneurin Bevan

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Anais Nin

All unlived emotions turn to inanity ...

Tony Robbins

Emotion is changed by motion.

Smiley Blanton

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

Jane Austen

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Mark Bruener

My belief and desire to play has changed dramatically since I got here. Football is fun again.

Iain Jones

I expect these to be tough games but I have every belief that these girls can compete with these teams.

J. Horton

I have a very strong belief in what Gerard is trying to do here.

Tony Graffanino

I was moved beyond belief. I could have cried.

Tim Buckley

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.

Sting

I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music. It seemed to be the most noble thing I could imagine. I had no idea how it was done but I always had this belief that music, no matter who you were playing to, was always going to be nourishing to me.

Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Steve Squyres

I don't have a belief regarding that question.