Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Di Filippo

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.

Nancy Collins

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Jesmyn Ward

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Lynn Coady

I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Detective Lopez

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Harry Groves

Knowledge had a great high school career. The longer you have him, the faster he's going to get, the faster his 200s and sprints are going to get. Knowledge is just beginning to get in shape.

Charles Precourt

Knowing that our last docking is the beginning of the end for that space station is nostalgic, because we won't be able to go back to it, and we'll have to move on.

Zoe Koplowitz

Kids see it and begin believing that, 'Hey, that old broad can put in 26 miles, maybe I can make something of myself and my life,'

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Scott Skiles

Kirk was outstanding tonight pretty much from beginning to end. Defensively he was as good as he always is and he played with a nice tempo. He didn't really force anything, ran the offense well, penetrated and made a lot of good decision.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Richard Hoey

I would say that core PCE is going to be a big focus at the beginning of the week, ... The PCE is important because that is what the Fed is focused on.

Mike Kerr

Kelsey kept us in the game. Hansel was really forcing it a lot at the beginning of the year. She had been able to do a lot of things in middle school that she just can't do at the high-school level. She has had to figure out other ways to score. She had to get comfortable. Once she did that, she was able to have games like last night.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Bruce Gradkowski

I think it ends the season right. Our careers here at Toledo as seniors, it is icing on the cake. This is our championship and it feels great.

Alan Townsend

Whatever code of conduct they choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on their employees' careers is paramount.

Sharon Stone

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Alexandra Maria Lara

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

Darnell Jenkins

We made sure we sent our seniors off with a win. It was real important to win it for them. Some of them might pursue their careers in the NFL. Some of them might not. We just wanted to get them a memory before they left the Orange Bowl.

Conor McGregor

I don't fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Anna Paquin

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself, ... And I'm free to do it as much as I want. Most people don't have careers until they're adults.

Richard O'Brien

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

Sally Forman

I was interested in stepping out as a woman in philanthropy because I know that there are lots of powerful and generous women in the community and it gives us a common cause, which is schools. We show that we have strength and influence.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Frank Penela

Just spray and just do the common sense things you'd do at this time of the year.

Platen

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Todd Spencer

I suspect that is going to be a pretty common situation for the guys who worked the port.

Wang Guoliang

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

Joseph Cheng

He is there to promote common interests between the two countries and to try to reduce the 'China threat' image. This is a very serious challenge.

Thomas Piketty

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

Brian Ferneyhough

What effect these nine years have had or will have on my composing I really don't know - probably I'll be the last one to find out.

Gustav Mahler

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Sivamani

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Trevor Rabin

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Tony Williams

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Michael Stang

We will walk through with the students on what we are composing and why we are composing it. We will work to make sure they are in support of our proposal.

Diane Labrosse

Port Symphonies is more of a composing project rather than a conducting project. The score is written in time, in seconds. The notes translate to ship horn on, then ship horn off.

Andre Previn

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Gertrude Stein

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Thomas Lynch

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Jay Jacobs

What we'd want to eventually do, if we stay in the coliseum, is replace all the seats, have a new scoreboard and do the things to update it.

Peter Phelps

He's gone after six weeks, but his story-line sends him off to Somalia and he will eventually come back . . . possibly to All Saints , ... We'll just have to wait and see.

Joe Taslim

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

Otis Smith

We've got to stop talking about just making the playoffs. These are the kinds of steps you have to go through to eventually win a championship. That's something we want to do someday, not just make the playoffs.

Jamie Williams

We talk about eventually getting some kind of pedal that I can hit to make different sounds. For Tilly 2007 maybe.

Craig Haase

I thought our guys showed a lot of poise when Watertown made that run. They didn't panic. We could have been in trouble had they scored two or three more unanswered baskets. That was a big part of the game. We kept working hard and eventually got the momentum back in our favor.

Ashleigh Cole

I was worried we might go 12 innings. I knew eventually I'd start to tire.

George Eads

I went out, but I went in the closet. I stayed in there for awhile, but eventually I had to come out.

Dusty Baker

Guys gravitate towards him. You need those kind of guys. There's a lot he can still do.

Jack Gleeson

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

Elizabeth Mackay

Technology tends to be regarded as less defensive, so if investors become more nervous, they would tend to gravitate away from some of the tech stocks.

Daniel Woodrell

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Gary Kubiak

One of the things that impresses me about him is the way his teammates gravitate to him, which I think is important for a player at that position. You could see a little of that today. He handles himself real well.

Rascal Flatts

We've been living with that song (Feels Like Today) for over two years. It's got a different feel and a different message, a way of presenting today as the day to get over that struggle in your life. It's a positive spiritual song, and being passionate about music and spirituality, we always tend to gravitate toward songs like that. It's one of those that hit us right between the eyes.

Eve

As far as style goes, I gravitate toward anything that is effortlessly chic. I don't wanna look like I'm trying too hard.

Allison Tolman

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

Aaron Paul

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Waters

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

James Sasser

have to produce a better today and a better tomorrow.

Beth Henley

I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to look at it unless it's a success.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is of value because it can produce something.

Salman Rushdie

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Winston Churchill

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Will Self

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Ricki Lake

Hey, I don't produce my shows, I just show up to work!

Steve Peterson

I really think we have got a lineup that can produce and we did that tonight.

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.

Kitty Lagareta

I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.

Linda Spilker

I suspect there are more moons there than we know off.

Joe Haldeman

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Bill Clarke

We suspect that this is not unique to Walkerton,

Randy Hampton

We suspect it probably did but there's just no way to know.

Robert Gottlieb

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.