Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Kevin Williamson

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

John Gray

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Daniel Yergin

Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia.

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Dick Bruna

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Terry Ebbert

The system didn't break down. The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.

Don Baylor

The Southwest Conference and UT were not ready to break the color barrier. The Orioles took the pressure off Texas.

Tucker Max

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

Jean Chatzky

I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.

Judith Martin

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

David Letterman

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Stephen Barnes

You would have stayed out of them the last five years,

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Todd Watkins

From the middle of the third quarter, they scored every time they touched the ball.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

George Eliot

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Jeff Mullins

He swung her out and she just motored down the middle of the racetrack without much effort, ... It was kind of spine-tingling to watch.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Keith Kramme

It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field.

Jimmy Fletcher

It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end.

Omar Jacobs

It's going to keep going until I retire, so I think it's something that will always be there. When it changes, it changes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. As long as I'm productive, I don't think it should matter.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

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.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.