Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Boss Tweed

Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Frank Tyger

Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Tom DeLay

People that just throw numbers out, not knowing what they're talking about, I think it's pretty irresponsible.

Russell Andersson

People can get a view on what the market really thinks. There is tremendous value in knowing the consensus.

Michelle Shocked

The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go.

Douglas Dunn

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

Ben Wallace

Same way we've been doing it all season ? just going out and playing with a lot of energy, knowing that it really doesn't matter who we're playing against. We're just trying to go out and win every game, just to put ourselves in a better situation than we were in last year.

Jon Gruden

It would have been tough not knowing what would have happened.

Source Unknown

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Fernando Bryant

Any receiver that says they don't think about going over the middle when you have a guy like a John Lynch or a Kenoy Kennedy or a Donovin Darius , they're lying.

Cofer Black

a second-tier guy but one who knows things.

Ted Farrell

As developers, we like open source because we feel as if it's the little guy sticking it to the big guy. And it is true to some extent.

Cameron Crowe

Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.

Larry Taddeo

Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around. The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan.

Rob Ciarlo

As a purist I don?t like it. Put nine guys out there and let them play.

James Arness

As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.

Galen Hall

As an assistant, Joe would be the only guy I would go back to work for.

Alain Vigneault

A win is a win, but the guys weren't happy -- they would have preferred to do it in regular time. It's a big win for us and I liked a lot of parts to our game.