Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

M. Wolfe

Anne Klein you can find, if you look hard enough.

Wil Wheaton

When I told Anne that I just hate it that I can't help her, especially since I keep asking her to do stuff for me, she said, "It's okay. This is the 'sickness' part of 'sickness and health.'

Caroline Thompson

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Lady Gregory

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Lisa O'Hare

My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Steve Earle

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

Regis Philbin

I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey. Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight.

Rachel Caine

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

Alan Pardew

A fantastic strike. He'll do well to hit another one in his career.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Mike Babcock

The way they are playing, why wouldn't you play them. They were fantastic (against Chicago).

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Alan Lightman

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Meaghan Rath

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Dylan McDermott

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

Anne Stevenson

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Victor LaValle

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

Robert Bloch

Horror is the removal of masks.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)

Jaime Murray

I can't even watch horror movies - I have to turn the music down!

Fede Alvarez

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

Claude Mandil

(Prices) should be lower for lots of reasons this year. ...I'm not sure that will happen.

Kim Clijsters

So no tennis for the moment, but lots of treatment and massage.

Janet Jackson

I don't have a lot of friends.

Tawnya Gurney

And we've planted lots and lots of trees.

Russell Simmons

I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

Robert Hormats

We have a conundrum. We have a strong economy, but lots of people feel insecure.

Tim Hides

There's lots of trash talking. For the most part it's just fun.

William Gerstenmaier

There's lots of options being investigated. We're not really sure where things are right now.

Luke Windy

We just had trouble making lots of headway. We would make a run but Marian always seemed to answer.

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Mike Kramer

I didn't find out (that Holt had left) until Peter called me.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

David Hill

Of course, we really don't know what we're doing, since this is so new, ... But we think we've put something together that's pretty cool.

Gavin Grant

Definitely. I've been on a mini-tear since then.

Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Martin Freeman

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Drew Tate

I wanted to go make the tackle since I had thrown (the interception). That's pretty much it.

Robert Long

I wanted to do this (cosmetology) since I was a very little girl,

Bill Walker

I wanted to be in pageants since I was a little girl,

Shawn Horcoff

Terrible. The worst I've ever been part of since I've been a professional.

Ali Hewson

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

Octavia E. Butler

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Bela Lugosi

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Demetri Martin

Vampires probably don't have great breath.

Anne Rice

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

Richard Matheson

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

Stephenie Meyer

You can't trust a vampire, trust me

Tanith Lee

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

Christine Feehan

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.