Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Russ Hochstein

Well, that was two years ago. It was the Super Bowl, but it was also at a different position. So, I'll leave that in the past and work on what I have to do now.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Bruce Lee

The word "superstar" is an ilusion

E. O. Wilson

If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.

Russell Wilson

I'm going to the Super Bowl again.

Stephen King

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Stan Lee

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Francis Bacon

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Graham Joyce

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

Iain Banks

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

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

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

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

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'