Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rick Moody

What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America.

Richard Russo

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

Judith Krantz

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Joe Wilson

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Greg Vaughn

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

John Hawkes

Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married.

Edmund White

But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.

John C. Hawkes

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Thomas Campbell

Every day, he would drive into the city at noon and sell all day, ... He returned to West Warwick most nights around 8. It was a job for him.

Jason Schwartzman

To be honest, I'm happy in LA because my family is there and I think that's a great reason to live in a city - to be near the ones you love.

Howard Schultz

With less than a month to go, it's very clear to us that the city and state officials are not showing us the kind of respect we feel we deserve.

Peter Boylan

With Kalona being only 18 miles from Iowa City and the uniqueness of the community, I can see tremendous potential here.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Yotam Tepper

This is, in Israel for sure, the earliest church.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Mike Flaherty

We're holding teams to less than 40 points, on average, during the last eight games.

Patrick Darby

We're happy from the standpoint we have eight in the semifinals and everyone is still alive. Everybody has shown pretty good enthusiasm.

Mark Dacey

Considering when we were 4-4 after eight games, for sure we were starting to thing a playoff spot might be out of our own grasp.

Denny Green

And we have about eight guys who can play guard or tackle.

Jeff Price

Another night, in September, we had eight fires in a row.

David Chase

We have eight more games to go; and we want to win them all. If we can win a title, people will think we're for real. We can't take anything for granted.

John Tesh

We have eight million people listening each week. That's more than the number of people who watched me on Entertainment Tonight.

Shawn McCuen

We have eight juniors, two seniors, and one freshman starting. We all know there is still a very long way to go but we are playing very well right now." ()

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

John Sexton

The time has come to move this tournament to a new level,

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

I'm about the present.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.