Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I was struck all on a heap.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

Chuck Jones

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Chuck Klosterman

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

Christopher Wren

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Christopher Walken

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Christopher Moore

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

Christopher Moore

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Dan Auerbach

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

Dan Aykroyd

The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.

Clark Blaise

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

Susan B. Anthony

Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.