Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

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

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Margaret Atwood

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Justin Cronin

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Katee Sackhoff

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Heidi Julavits

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Alfred North Whitehead

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Aubrey Peeples

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Legislator Korce

We do not want to work off of assumptions.

Ashley Wagner

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.