Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Sinclair

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

Charles Dickens

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Sylvester McCoy

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

Stella Pence

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Laurie Levenson

We don't usually think of them as literary giants.

Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Alexei Mordashov

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

Renee James

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Brad Anderson

Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped,

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Chad Smith

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.