Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Menand

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Puff Daddy

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Busy Philipps

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

Douglas Adams

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Annie Dillard

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Amanda Fuller

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Cathy Allinger

If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

John Anderson

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

James Cook

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

Noam Chomsky

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

Oswald Chambers

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Katsuya Okada

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

James Larkin

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.