Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Flynn

What you have to look at, any one vehicle in a category can do well, but does it exhaust the category?

Marguerite Young

I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.

Randy Carlyle

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

Dr. Cartter

If pandemics were hurricanes, 1918 was a Category 5.

Hines Ward

I just hate to see that I'm getting put into that same category because I think our situations are totally different,

Sean McAlinden

It's our Category 5, our economic New Orleans.

John Nolan

I've got a really mature point guard for a sophomore. The Considine girl doesn't like to lose and she plays that way. She not selfish - she leads us in every category - shooting, scoring, assists and steals. But her determination and work ethic rub off on everybody else.

John Gallagher

I've got a pretty good sense we're probably prepared for a Category 3, ... I don't think I'm prepared for a Category 5.

John Krasinski

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Jocelyn Thibault

There is a difference but I don't think it's going to be a big deal. I have been using the new equipment since the summer. I got used to it pretty well. It will be different, but we're all on the same playing field.

Charles Haynes

There is a difference between what is required and what is the right thing to do.

Lee Tien

There is a difference between talking to your kids and sniffing your kids.

Brandi Keeler

There is a difference between procrastination and patience just as there is a difference between wanting to wait and needing to wait.

Rodger Schmidt

He's a fabulous young talent, but he didn't just fall off a tree. He was built, not born.

Dean Montzingo

He's a fabulous shooter. We'll try to make him work hard for his shots.

Fred Rogers

I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen,

Frank Haith

He had one of those nights. He's a fabulous player and showed it tonight.

Bruce Hensley

He is just a gem of a guy. A fabulous sense of humor.

E. Hurley

I really concentrated on ways to look fabulous but covered,

Kellyanne Conway

I thought Mike Pence did a fabulous job.

Pearl Cleage

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Jason Murgel

All the seniors really stepped up tonight. Especially Sara Noonan, she had a fabulous game.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

John Greene

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Simon Newcomb

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Andrew Walker

Luke's been an outstanding editor-in-chief. Throughout the year, he's always been greatly supportive to me.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Pierre Lafontaine

One of the things that will be greatly missed is Mike's leadership within the national swim team,

Jack Quinn

That would greatly surprise me. I can't image that happening, ... Meet The Press.

Jimmy Smits

John was a true pillar of a man, he set the stage for kindness and generosity. His humor and smile were infectious, he will be greatly missed.

Tiffani Bruce

For the most part, verifying eligibility has greatly improved.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Brendan Fletcher

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

David Steinberg

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Michael P. Anderson

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.

Roger McGuinn

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Barry Eisler

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

David Lodge

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Eugenio Montale

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Natalie Cole

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Hartley Coleridge

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

James Russell Lowell

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

George Farquhar

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Ogden Nash

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

William Shakespeare

But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love.