Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Craig Thomas

The thing about this character is that he feels so certain that he's so right about so many things. But usually he's just so wrong.

Marsha Blackburn

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

John Corey Whaley

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

Molly Antopol

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

David Small

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

Richard Myers

I use the term irrelevant because at this point, they're not going to be able to communicate with the people of Iraq; that will all be shut down, ... They won't be able to communicate within certain parts of Baghdad.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Eugene Rodriguez

It was a little too lonely for me, ... The (traditional Mexican) music took me to a place that felt like home. It was a music that I felt mostly in my heart.

Jeff Pacheco

It was a number that we felt was very manageable.

Aretha Franklin

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

Ayelet Waldman

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

Chuck Long

We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more.

John Stanczykiewicz

Every time they needed a rebound, she seemed to get it.

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

James Barnes

Nobody really needed my help. I'm really proud of them for that.

Tony Taylor

(New Albany) didn't have any errors. They made the plays when they needed to and we didn't make the plays.

Dick Mandella

Carly got tough when she needed too. I'm proud of the kids. We could have folded, but we battled back.

Jamie Dixon

Carl has done everything he's needed to do academically,

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.