Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Mike Holmgren

I talk about that a lot. I think if you asked one of my players, they'd probably tell you I kill them with that stuff. Just being careful. It's the last thing I told them Sunday night after we broke from the stadium after the game. After this incident, it gave me another opportunity because they were listening. I mean for the guys who kind of tuned me out before, now I had everybody listening and we talked about it, which, I think, is my responsibility as a coach. You know these guys are my family, and it would be like talking to your own kids, you don't want bad things to happen to them so let's try to help them a little bit.

John Remington

I think it is about both. Not only does it help the financial situation, but it sends an appropriate message to employees that they're not the only ones being asked to bite the bullet.

Geoff Jenkins

He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice.

Chris Lynne

He couldn't have asked for much more from his body. He did the best he could.

Sidney Green

He's been raised around basketball since he was conceived. The only thing we've asked of Billy is to continue to nurture and teach him to become the best possible basketball player he can possibly be. Coach Donovan and his coaching staff are doing a remarkable job. I couldn't have put him in a better hand that Coach Donovan.

Nick Knight

He's a very impressive character and has great standing in the game and I'm sure that will serve him well if he is asked to work with England.

Natalie Henderson

He's a very good father. I couldn't have asked for a better father. He loved his kids.

Dustin Riley

He seems to have gotten a lot better. A lot of the things that we were working on with him were mental and technical. He's done a real nice job of doing what the coaches have asked him.

Mary Karr

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Marie Lu

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

Tom Florczak

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Nancy Kress

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

Pat Roberts

We have several working drafts that we will give to members as of this week,

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

William Dunkelberg

Historically, except for the dot-com hiring binge, this is a very solid number.

Alan Trammel

I thought we responded to everything well except for this last month. I think, looking back, it is fair to say that we hit a wall.

Meredith Mize

It is a great way to get your mind off stress. When you are climbing, nothing really exists except for you and the wall. When you are finished, you look down and feel like you have accomplished something.

Steve Alford

I thought all the teams were going to be better in our league, with maybe the exception of Illinois. I thought they'd be very good.

Dale Layer

I thought we did a pretty good job on everything except threes.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

William Tyndale

The Scriptures sprang out of God.

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

William H. Macy

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

Mahatma Gandhi

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Ewan McGregor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

Kirsten Dunst

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kenneth Williams

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.