Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Jim Bagnall

This was setting up to be a really wet system. Now there are indications that it won't be quite as significant.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Anthony Bourdain

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Veronica Roth

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.