Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Duncan

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Jason Eldredge

Keep giving it to us, we've got to figure it out. When the whistle blows, let's play it.

Brian Nichols

Just shut up. Just shut up. I gotta figure a way out here.

Julie Brown

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Mike Mills

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Eric McArthur

We just have to figure out who goes where in our bullpen. We got guys who just couldn't find the plate and we need them to go out there and throw strikes.

Alex Lewis

We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've had so far.

Thomas Berkery

We're old enough to know we got to get the job done. It's just a matter of making adjustments and getting on a run. We got to figure out what people are trying to do to us pitching-wise and how quickly we can adjust.

Steven Klein

I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

Alexander McCall Smith

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,