Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Mike Kehoe

John had no clue that his dad was out there so that when he walked up on 17, that was the first time John had seen his dad. Picture, storybook, dream. It just doesn't get any better than that.

Keith White

He was a cool dude. I know his older uncle. We talked about getting together and doing some music. I got his number a few weeks ago. He seemed like an all- right guy with sense. I had no clue he was going to open up like that.

Ken Young

He knows there's some cookies coming. He has no clue there are 68 boxes.

Julius Peppers

I think it's funny, because it just goes to show how much people think they really know but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about,

Jim Lowe

We've been through so many threats, we had no clue it was going to get this bad. The last time they had an evacuation, we sat out on our porch and watched people go. We didn't leave until they predicted it would be a level three or four storm.

John Updike

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

Susan Vreeland

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

Jimmy Johnson

I don't have a clue what took place tonight, ... We had problem after problem. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.

Jim Crace

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Neil MacGregor

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Neil MacGregor

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Paul Scheuring

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Joseph Campbell

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Kara Swisher

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Peter Greenaway

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

S. Walker

It was devastating, ... But perhaps had that not happened, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,

Stephen Carl

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Lev Grossman

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Marco Arment

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

The Bravery

Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.

James Gray

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

Allen Wallace

I thought it was a disappointing year in Arizona. Jermaine Williams was the only top-ranked player.