Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Steven Bernstein

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Pras Michel

Sometimes people say things because it sounds cool. But when I say I'm with the revolution, especially now, I'm dead serious about it.

Chris McKay

The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and any life there -- if it exists -- would live underground.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Ivan Allen

When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer than two years, this is the least I can do,

Jason Snyder

He pretty much ruined my name. I no longer have a business. He took me right down with him.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

David Bowie

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Bud Selig

This was a day many people never thought would happen, ... And there were a lot of moments that there was a lot of justification for that.

Douglas Adams

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Strout

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

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Elie Wiesel

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

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.