Famous Quotes & Sayings

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

Sara Teasdale

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Wes Anderson

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

Sandra Bullock

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Sandra Cisneros

We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

James Corden

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

Octavia Spencer

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

John Green

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Robert Collier

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

Rob Thurman

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.

Rob Zombie

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

Rob Chapman

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

Rob Halford

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Robin Quivers

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Wislawa Szymborska

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Yunus Emre

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.