Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Cassavetes

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Anurag Kashyap

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Alex Kapranos

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.

Angela Ruggiero

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

T. Harv Eker

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

Ray Lewis

Success is one thing, impact is another

Simon Sinek

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

Steve Israel

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

Steve Case

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have

Sam Harris

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Tom Baker

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Tobias Smollett

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

John Betjeman

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.