Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meredith Monk

I think I still have some confusion about the critical mind. But it seems that there's a difference between the critical mind, which is a kind of judgment, and has a harshness built in, cutting off impulses before they can develop, and discriminating intelligence, which can differentiate between what is authentic or genuine and what is contrived or forced.

Jim Walsh

I had been in a lot of Irish pubs all over the world, and I didn't know why we didn't have any here. I wanted to have an authentic Irish pub in town ... and I wanted it to be in Waterloo.

Todd McFarlane

I have to believe that a soldier doesn't do everything by the book when bullets are whizzing by their heads in battle, ... That's when survival and preservation instincts kick in and it's at that moment where you will find the best, authentic pose.

Alan Young

In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

John Skipper

I hope we'll do a little more international football-centric production of the games so that it'll feel more and more authentic and more and more like ESPN is part of the international football world,

Dennis Hopkins

The exact soup is Progresso Vegetable Classic Minestrone Authentic Recipe. As a safety precaution, even though it was just that one can, we thought it was the right thing to do.

Paul Sams

The idea was let's create a real market of authentic players and see if we can change the mindset. Let's see if we can change the mindset by showing we're willing to meet them partway.

Martin Seligman

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Tyler Oakley

To me, what's really an important difference between traditional entertainment and digital - on YouTube specifically - is that people thrive when they're authentic about themselves.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Benjamin Rush

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

M. J. Rose

I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

Julia Glass

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

J. A. Konrath

I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

Julie Kenner

I know authors shouldn't play favorites with books, but 'Release Me' really is right up there for me. The characters truly came alive on the page and drove the story as much as I did from behind the scenes. It was a pleasure to write, and I'm so thrilled that it's the first of a trilogy because I get to spend more time with the characters.

Robert Gottlieb

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

Jimmy Stewart

It ranks right up there at the top,

Jerome Bettis

It was a unique game. It ranks up there. It was crazy.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

O. Henry

If you're on a roll you get two or three.

Pat Gillick

In a situation, sometimes you have to roll the dice. What do we need, an outfielder or another pitcher?

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Greg Thompson

That first split hurt. He got on a roll and it was pretty much over.

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.