Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesmyn Ward

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Lynn Coady

I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Samuel Johnson

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Leslie Mann

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Sara Blakely

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Warren Farrell

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

Ron Evans

In that one month, three of the females have ovulated and made advances,

Pierce Brosnan

If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Bill Polick

In addition, we can use less asphalt material. So, instead of putting two inches down, like we do with normal asphalt, we only have to use somewhere between an inch and an inch and a half.

Jim Bowers

I measured it this morning ... and there was about 13 inches on my back deck.

John Barrett

The laptop market is a mile wide and an inch deep.

James Roche

It was a 16 inch line, they make big holes, lot of water pressure washed it out.

John C. Maxwell

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Trent Reznor

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Valerie Solanas

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes...

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Warren Farrell

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Manuel Miranda

Roberts has soaked up the white male seat.

Jen Kirkman

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.

Emilie Autumn

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Kevin Estes

I'm always a little worried when we play teams that are taller than us.