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.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Martin McDonagh

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Mark Twain

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Michio Kaku

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Flannery O'Connor

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Erich Dumbeck

I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something done through the legal system that says, 'Don't do this again,' and I don't know what that means to do that are.

Steve Hall

I have two legal opinions that say that it's unconstitutional.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Ozzie Guillen

People talk about the big lead. I never said we were going to win this thing by 20 games,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Janet Yellen

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Ron Howard

For most of us, we had never seen anything like that or went through anything like that.

O. J. Simpson

If they aren't careful, they are going to be seen as selling out to biotech.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.