Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bob Reed

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

Paul Aiken

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

Patricia Cornwell

It's criminal if successful authors don't support literacy. I challenge them all to write a check.

Chris Van Allsburg

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

M. J. Rose

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Helen Oyeyemi

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.

Martin Campbell

I remember standing Catherine next to Antonio and I thought, 'I don't even need to look at the screen tests. I know exactly,' and, as it turned out, they just work extremely well together.

Jerry Gantt

It's just hard to find someone to take on a small job like this, so when Catherine found this guy working in the area, she jotted his phone number down and we gave him a call.

Karen Abbott

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

Travis Reinsch

The improvement that Charlie had from the start of the season to now is remarkable. His record doesn't show his ability.

Nancy Gibbs

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Charlie Crist

You can trust Charlie Crist.

Frank Denton

I've been a friend of Charlie Ray's a long time and he's still very much my friend. He got pulled into an issue he didn't want to be pulled into. He's a public servant and an employee. He was remorseful for signing the letter. I'm extremely sorry he got pulled into this.

Annalee Newitz

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Jeremy Crabtree

When you look back, this might be the worst class he ever signed because he didn't have a lot of time to recruit. But if you think about what he did at Nebraska and the quality players he recruited, he should do well for Buffalo. Florida didn't do as well under Urban Meyer in his first year and neither did Notre Dame with Charlie Weis. It's usually that second class where you see results.

Paul Simon

Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce, he says, well this will eat up a year of my life, and there's all that weight to be lost.

Nick Fry

We trust Charlie and the FIA and had a very nice conversation in which we made it clear we needed him to help us clarify the situation.

Jerry Morgan

We had success right off the bat, ... Our first team lost in the state championship game in McKinney. Brandon Grant and Charlie Wells from Liberty-Eylau were pitchers on that team.

David Waltemeyer

Our efforts have always been, and will continue to be, to make sure the driver ... and the passenger are not consuming the alcohol.

Karl Hobbs

He was fantastic today. He's a kid I've talked a lot about. It was a matter of time before he was going to show his talent.

Sasha Jackson

I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work.

Juliana Rotich

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!

Jeff Simmons

I know this is a fantastic opportunity with a great team.

Torrie Wheat

It's killing us having to wait so much because that was a very disappointing game. It was a combination of them playing some fantastic hockey and us not playing our best. You never like to lose, but it's made us more focused for the home opener.

Richard Gough

This is a fantastic opportunity for me to demonstrate my capabilities as a manager.

Jim Tomsula

This league is fantastic for quarterbacks. I think the owners think so, too that is a big part of what they are doing here.

Jim Carroll

It was quite a wake-up call. She's in good health and mentally strong. We had a fantastic conversation.

Alan Pardew

A fantastic strike. He'll do well to hit another one in his career.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Mustafa Alani

His organization is going to be under pressure. He's anticipating a huge challenge, not from the Americans but inside Iraq.

Tom Penders

I think it's huge for the league. We still feel we're still at least a three-bid league.

Donna Davis

It is a huge milestone because if you don't have enough signatures you'd have to start from scratch, as I understand.

Robin Pingeton

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Ryan Phillippe

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Loretta Young

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Gaspard Ulliel

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Jennifer Garner

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Herbie Hancock

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Sean Covey

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Robert Luketic

It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Ovid

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Controlled time is our true wealth.