Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Hernandez

There might have been an accidental discharge or it could have been a hit-type of incident.

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.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Katie Chang

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Thomas Lennon

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

Larry Dean

We are doing everything we can do in Bossier Parish to reach out and touch the needs of the people in the entire state,

JamesOn Curry

Sean, he's been through more than all (of us). That's his dad. He's looked up to him his whole entire life. It means a lot to him and his wife and family, too. They've been through a lot. (This win) is a great reward for him.

Clara Shih

My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

Sergei Prikhodko

Moscow-Beijing relations are now at their highest point in their entire history.

Rachel Farwell

I don't think she had two points in the entire first half (against Bonner). And she had 18 in the second half. We knew she was scoring but we didn't think she had quite that many points.

David Brown

If we played the entire season like we did the second half, we could have competed and maybe gone further.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Fred Rodriguez

I started pushing in that last 150 meters, and I passed everyone except for (Michaelsen). You can only do so much. You always like racing at home and doing well at home so (this finish) is a treat.

John Wooden

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Sharon Fearey

She was one of those people who never made waves except in a positive way. She was quiet. But when she saw something that needed to be done, she went about doing it.

Steven Duke

No, except for the ticket to get here, which I think you should pay for.

John Schuerholz

Nobody had any expectations except that he could be on our pitching staff and help us win. And that's what I go on.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Richard P. Feynman

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

Richard Dawkins

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Edward Teller

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Rabindranath Tagore

If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed; if I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Yoko Ono

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Dogen

Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.