Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Gayle Lynds

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Judy Kirkpatrick

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Scott Turow

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

Maria Semple

I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.

James Gunn

I feel a bit like Ellen Glasgow (I think it was) who said that she was the master and characters did what she said. I'm envious of authors whose characters become so real to them that they take off in their own directions, but my philosophy of teaching, as well as writing, is to demystify the process.

Albert Camus

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong!

Mark Cousin

The system is then connected and measurements validated on the line.

Bill Gates

You want literally everything in the world to be connected

Cameron Mathison

The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

Dani Anderson

We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders and rests his head on my shoulders. He's very loving and listens to me.

Ben Horowitz

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Zahi Hawass

Maybe they are mummies of kings or queens or nobles, we don't know. But it's definitely someone connected to the royal family.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Eve Ensler

I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's empowerment is deeply connected to their sexuality. And, I'm obsessed with women being violated and raped, and with incest. All of these things are deeply connected to our vaginas.

Jason Mraz

In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Joseph Towle

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

Jeff Lindsay

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Dr. Mohammad

(You) push on the trigger and then you will hear two pulses, two seconds apart, and then that's it.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Julian Kurtz

We even sent them a certified letter but they won't pick it up.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Donna Mitchell

We sent the letter registered mail with confirmation to the TSA. We got confirmation back that they had received it. That was at the end of March 2005.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Tom Robbins

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Mark Twain

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Jerry Harrison

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Fidel Castro

Thank you Fidel Castro, thank you for existing.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Burton Cummings

I sing in key, thank you very much.

Miley Cyrus

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Ed Young

Father, thank you for the thrill that is in the air.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.