Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Hill

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

John Searles

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Robert Kenneth

It is also an affirmation of state's authority to monitor regulate and determine legitimate medical practice.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Abdallah Baali

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Elaine Pagels

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Richard Murray

There is huge irony here. Six Democrats in Congress were eliminated, but the seventh victim may turnout to be the author of the plan.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Jean Harlow

HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about.

Graeme Base

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Robert Motherwell

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Paul Gascoigne

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

William Sutton

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

Van Cliburn

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.

Carmelo Anthony

Having three, four power forwards out there on our team, being so deep at that position, at this point, it really doesn't matter.

Mark Schmidt

He's a scoring point guard. He can really shoot the ball. He has deep range with his shot. He can play an up-tempo style.

Ernie Accorsi

I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.

Gerard Kemkers

I think it's as deep as you've ever seen. To win, it has to be a perfect race from start to finish.

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

Ali Landry

describing how he wanted to kill a member of his family. And he wanted to come and tell me the whole story as soon as he got out and how he did it. So it was just really scary for me for a while.

Christopher Darden

Sometimes I have trouble articulating some things or describing things in a way that I think is necessary. But I never run out of ideas.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Tom Crean

Jack and Jackie gave Jim a great value base. He saw how Jack did it and how Jackie supported it. Jim is such a natural leader and a natural competitor. He feels a responsibility to lead people. That's what led him to be a head coach.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Brendan Morrison

Going into to the game, I knew I had to step it up. There's no sense hanging your head about it. You've got to go out and do the little things and help the team win. Last game I felt good, but didn't get too many chances. It feels good to get the first one. I knew it's only a matter of time before I notched my first goal and got a few points.

Brian Cashman

He's always a bright-side type of guy. He feels he's going to be fine and ready and this is small problem.

Josh Green

I was able to stay in shape, though it's not the same as game shape. All around it was pretty good rehab. I should be at 100%. The only thing is the rustiness from being off. The injury feels fine. It's not an issue anymore.

Jamie Mahaffey

He feels very sorry that he's not here. He loves the game of basketball. It's something we can't control, and he wishes he were here.

Scott Baker

He feels it's better to disassociate himself with the situation and not let it become a distraction,

Joe Torre

He feels fine, but when he does all his drills, he still feels it a little. It doesn't hurt or restrict him, but it's there.

Seth Greenberg

He feels bad. He's a very sensitive kid. He's a great kid.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Tommy Amaker

I thought our veterans led the way for us with a lot of toughness and heart.

Drew Sullivan

He's been incredible for us all year. He's been the heart and soul of our team.

Carl Jung

Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next.

Richard Powers

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.