Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

Joan D. Vinge

The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.

Jared Diamond

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Oliver Herford

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Irving Wallace

Read all you can about it, interview experts on it, even travel to the sites of the story to guarantee authenticity and get a feel for the background.

Sarah Zettel

Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.

Shelby Foote

During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament.

William Greider

A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.

Chaim Potok

Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.

Chris Jones

Capturing particles from a comet as it whizzes by is a way of looking back in time.

Scott Smyser

Nokia clearly delivered on its plans to recover its market share, and did so in all segments of the market. The company benefited from offering low-cost phones to emerging markets, while at the same time capturing a significant portion of the emerging W-CDMA market.

Joe Wright

Emma was the fairy godmother of the film; she gave wonderful advice.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Douglas Jerrold

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Sean Durkin

We had a lot of wood to chop. It's a shame the fairy tale ride had to end here.

Jack Zipes

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Imelda May

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

Amanda Eliasch

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Gary Ross

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Steve Hill

The thing with these guys is that theyve all been there before, ... They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. Thats whats been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

Paul Tagliabue

a fresh look has to be taken at the lease arrangement.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Allen Iverson

Once you get away and come back, you're ready to go. But knowing it's a fresh start, like a new season; we're taking it one game at a time.

Pinky Mulligan

Santiago will be here. I've got some fresh misery for him.

Michael Starke

They are always tough and competitive. We just want to try to get better this week and come out fresh Friday and give them a sweat.

Judy Olson

This is attributed to the quality of the programs as they replicate what Operation Fresh Start began.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Josh Feinman

You're not going to turn this thing around with platitudes. There are no magic bullets.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Marcia Wieder

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Peter Lawwell

Neil has apologised and we know that his reaction was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Halle Berry

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

John Sullivan

We think it's wonderful that he will get to live the American dream.

Cynthia Nixon

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

Cory Hardrict

Lovelace was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it cant get no better than that, right?

Clive Barker

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

Donald Trump

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.