Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

William Butler Yeats

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Chris Nelson

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Will Rogers

All I know is what I read in the papers

Kirk Kerkorian

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.