Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

She would always be my biggest what if.

Tucker Max

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

Willa Cather

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Werner Erhard

The important question to ask is not 'Will we surivive?' but 'What if we survive?'

Robin McKinley

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Mike Lupica

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

Kathy Reichs

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

Newt Gingrich

What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

Matt Groening

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Peter Ackroyd

Freud was just a novelist.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Eric Ries

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Kim Cattrall

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Kenny Cunningham

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Krist Novoselic

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Kristen Johnston

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

Juice Newton

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Emma Goldman

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.