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.

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.

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.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Baha'u'llah

Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

Ashwin Sanghi

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Bashar al-Assad

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

Harvey Pitt

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

James Gaston

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

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

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

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Tom Reich

When it comes to the economics of baseball, there's no question he's been a hawk and is a hawk. But I don't think that meant that he didn't want to win. His excitement right now is undeniable.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

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.

Rey Mysterio

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

James Mcewan

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

Peter Lehman

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

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

Lindsey Scherf

I've been running for 10 years now. It's a genuine love of the sport that kept me going. ... The fact that I love to go out and go for a run every day, regardless of how fast I was, kind of helped keep me going.

Mariel Hemingway

I've been depressed. I've had suicidal thoughts. I realize I'm not really full-on there because I never could plan it. But the fact of the matter is, there is a way out, there is help.

John McCamant

This is rather large. The fact that Monsanto did it right in front of a trial, they (the university) must have had a lock-shut case.

Richard Estrada

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

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,

Curtis Strange

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

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Agnus Berenato

That was a huge victory for us, but we couldn't sustain it.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

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.

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.

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.

Bernie Sanders

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

Travis Gray

This year has been great. I'm proud of these guys. I feel like I'm part of the team.

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.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Maisie Williams

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

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Brett Buckles

It was quite the jump, being thrown into it. It's been a blast.

Ali Alatas

It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Brian Tracy

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

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

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?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Timbaland

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Timothy Geithner

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

T. S. Eliot

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

Suze Orman

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.