Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rick Moody

What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America.

Richard Russo

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

Judith Krantz

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Joe Wilson

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Greg Vaughn

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

John Hawkes

Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married.

Edmund White

But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.

John C. Hawkes

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

Chris King

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

Paul Blake

I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town.

Julie Vallese

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

James Wagoner

And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

Nestor Aguila

The stock looks extremely good in terms of fundamentals, with a book value of 1.64 pesos per share.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

Astro Teller

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

Matt Stone

I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Sean Hannity

So you think it's race-related (which Watters had not said)? You think race is the factor that the New Orleans mayor didn't use the buses?

Arnold Glasow

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Steve Govett

Ryan was willing to move to Denver, which was a huge plus and a huge factor in us making the selection,

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

John Fogg

Psychologically, that is a huge step forward, ... When that happens, you can think about getting back to a sense of normalcy.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Jonathon Shockey

This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.

Dan Castro

We had a huge increase this year and it's unlikely that it can be sustained at that level. With interest rates moving higher, mortgage originations will be down a little bit, and as a result, securitizations will be down.

Gennaro Castaldo

There have only been two or three other personal appearances which were as huge as this and we have had to turn away many of the fans.

Curtis Strange

When it first was played in 1987, it was a huge deal.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Philip Hoffman

Be proud, Mom, because I'm proud of you, and we're here tonight, and it's so good.

Gary Bartlett

Turnout is not anything to be proud of this year.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Jim Bagnall

This was setting up to be a really wet system. Now there are indications that it won't be quite as significant.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Anthony Hopkins

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?