Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russo

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

John C. Hawkes

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

Charles James

The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Richard Wright

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Arthur Herzog

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

Sue Grafton

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Vicki Baum

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

J. K. Rowling

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Arizona Muse

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Dave Morin

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Christopher McCandless

I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

Alvar Aalto

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

Andrew Shue

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.