Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Steve Jobs

I know it is frustrating to some of our investors that we're not sort of a quarter-to-quarter growth company, ... But the fact is our life is measured in pictures, not quarters. And we are increasing our output.

Jay Feely

I just got up and said that I was sorry and, 'I let you guys down,' ... People are going to say that it's a team game ? but the fact of the matter is you have to come through when you have the opportunity.

Jay Feely

I just got up and said that I was sorry and, 'I let you guys down,' ... People are going to say that it's a team game ? but the fact of the matter is you have to come through when you have the opportunity.

Bob Hill

I heard after the fact that Phoenix wanted him. The team that we really kept hearing was Golden State.

Omid Djalili

I have to be sensitive to the fact that I am in a big theatre this year, and kids come to my show now, so I am trying to be more vigilant about offending. I still want to be truthful to what I say, but without alienating anybody.

Tony Longa

I like fact we're playing pretty good basketball. We've played pretty good ever since we had those three straight losses at home. I think the guys are starting to understand how we need to play.

Brad Andera

I'm really happy for Riley. The fact that he was able to go out and win the ESD, that's a pretty big accomplishment.

Michael Vick

I'm kind of sick of the fact that everyone wants to praise me in the running game. My goal is try to make them respect me in the passing game, too.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Marisa Tomei

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

Kendall Jenner

I don't know - I feel like someone would think of me, or anyone in my family, as unappreciative of a moment, and I've really learned to appreciate a moment. I take things in a lot. I'm kind of weird like that. I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.

Paul Watzlawick

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

Molly Shannon

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Paula McLain

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.