Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Friedman

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

Ziggy Marley

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Bob Schieffer

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Carrie Fisher

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Berkeley Breathed

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...

Ashley Tisdale

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

David Elias

We could have a terrible Christmas, and it could be another six months before things improve,

Ramel Bradley

We just didn't show any pride in the first half. I think it was us not being back in game situations yet (after Christmas break).

Patty Loveless

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Leslie Brolin

We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops things like that.

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Jeremy Roenick

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

Jerry Mackey

We're not good enough to have defensive lapses. Normally, when we score 59 points, that's enough. Offensively, we're doing some good things, but defensively it looks like a circus sometimes.

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Denis Chatelier

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Gary Sheffield

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I'm going to get the anti-inflammatories and see how I feel tomorrow.

Bobby Lewis

That way you get them in quicker and out quicker.

Andre Agassi

has probably come on a little quicker than anticipated.

Catherine Fisher

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Steve Wright

Our supplies are drying up quicker than expected.

Kenny Anderson

I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.

Alan King

I was worried about the ground, and while I thought it was quicker than ideal, there was no jar.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Darrell Royal

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Petrarch

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

William Shakespeare

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

Chris Botti

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Bill Johnson

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

Edith Wharton

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Arthur Rimbaud

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

William Shakespeare

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

William Shakespeare

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.