Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Rod Thorn

Kidd can defend the best wing player at the end of the game, make the big pass, get the big rebound. That takes the pressure off the players.

Kelly Clark

Khoury's block on that toss play - wow. That was one of the best blocks I've seen all year - on film or in person.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Walter Mosley

What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,'

Jeff Zucker

He expressed the position that NBC is in, ... We're in a rebuilding phase. Nobody's in denial about that.

Wally Lamb

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Rex Grossman

I knew right away and I was kind of in denial to start with. But I knew. I heard a pop. I tried to make it work. I was trying to walk it off. I knew right away.

Rex Grossman

I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with,

Tomas Taterka

Even with the denial of immediate plans, there are expectations of stock buyout in the medium term. If they completely rule this out, however, the stock will quickly fall.

Nikki Reed

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

Oprah Winfrey

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

Lane Evans

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

Keith Miller

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Jim Howell

It's hard to imagine that there's not going to be any long-term fallout from what happens.

Cindy Shaw

It sounds like the fallout for EDS might not be as pronounced as some people had expected.

Matthew Cooper

That's possible, as a fallout from this decision, ... Reliable Sources.

Gary Brown

soft on high-ranking government officials. Can you imagine the fallout if they didn't look into it?

Bill Russell

They have the right to protest, but are misguided in the views.

John Gage

provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.

Christine Teigen

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

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.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Alice McDermott

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Wyclef Jean

He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

Mike Kuntz

Here, we had them on their heels, and we wanted to go for the jugular, but we didn't pick up a blitz.

Jay Haugland

He's deceivingly fast. When you watch him from the outside, sometimes he doesn't look that fast, but he can pick up speed in a hurry.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Ruth Miller

We're now role models, so if we see a piece of garbage, we'd better pick it up.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Randy Smith

I thought she was dead. I didn't think she'd survive that.

Rudy Meredith

It was a tough game. We survived and were able to get a much-needed victory.

Pernessa Seele

The virus wants to survive. The only way the virus can survive is to kill my people. I got to do more.

Rand Paul

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

Andy Lopez

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

Roy Williams

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Mike Brey

My theme is survival, and that's even before we are where we are. You're trying to survive and trying to claw your way to New York City.

Gary Graham

I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

Paul Bailey

I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?'