Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Churchill

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

Maria Shriver

I'm a parent. We all want great futures for our kids. The after-school program helps to provide that for these kids. Otherwise many of them would go home to empty homes because their parents have to work.

Tom Watson

If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.

David Carrier

Got a few salons down the road, a few empty spaces for lease, maybe even for sale, get through with school, open up my own shop right there by my house, won't have to move ever again, permanent.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Harry S Truman

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.