Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Michael Lewis

If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process.

Phil Klay

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Pierre Beaumarchais

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Ken Hill

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Mike Trapasso

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It's not ideal, but it's better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

Mitch Hedberg

I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

Sara Gruen

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

Warren Christopher

To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

Robert Pattinson

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

Yann Martel

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

African Proverb

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Diane Forden

He ... had a sense of humor that is subject to interpretation, on women's rights for example,

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Thomas Aquinas

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Talib Kweli

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Jewel

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.