Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Holmes

As far as I'm concerned the guy was crooked as a snake. Wyatt Earp was a deputy U.S. marshal at the time of the shootout. Virgil was a deputy U.S. marshal, and the chief of police...Morgan had been authorized as a constable...Wyatt Earp had warrants for these characters, and the sheriff had warrants for Wyatt Earp. So it was crazy the way things were done.

Joe Meno

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Allen Wright

Pyle is considered the author of Robin Hood.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Steve Morton

You sweep your finger over the sensor. ... A flood of images goes from the fingerprint sensor into our chip. A fingerprint sensor in one of our tiny image processor chips is built into the handle of a gun. ... You grab the gun, you sweep the finger over the sensor and, in less than a heartbeat, if you are authorized to fire the gun, you can. Otherwise you can't.

Lori Wilde

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

James Johnson

The software version is an improved version that provide other kinds of bells and whistles.

Jessica Valenti

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Sylvia Plath

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Glenn Tilton

So far, the pressure is not that great. It's sort of ringing the bell for us. We've learned to compete effectively with Frontier, and we'll do the same with Southwest.

Dan Patrick

If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.

Bill Callahan

He's a guy who has taken more pride in his preparation, ... He understands his role as a leader on the defense. He's kind of a bell cow out there, and he's going to get everybody on the same page.

Irwin Michael

I don't know how Toronto would be without Bell and Northern Telecom... those two stocks are helping to drive the market. If you look at New York...logically our market would be a little to the softer side.

Anthony Doerr

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

Charles Schumer

I hope and pray that the president chooses to unite rather than divide; that he chooses consensus over confrontation.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Anne Lamott

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

M. Wolfe

Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think it's a step forward for our community.

Mark Butler

Yes, we would have chosen to wait. We have a strict schedule.

Peter Lindbergh

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Michele Moore

There had been countless overtures prior to this particular publisher. But others finally convinced him that Dell was at a strategic point in the business, and this would be an opportunity to further the brand. Personally, he wouldn't have chosen to do it. It was difficult for him. He is singularly focused on the success of the business.

Neil Hodgson

The race package we have is quite good. We have chosen a tyre and we know exactly what we have with our settings. There are some races that you aren't sure of where you stand, but this isn't one of them. Looking at the lap-by-lap times of all the riders, I think it's going to be a close race. I'm a little disappointed to be on the second row. I thought we had enough to start out front, but that's racing.

Nicholas Burns

One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.

Bill Graham

If an election has to happen, our executive of our party have told me they're in a position to have an emergency leader chosen and they can do that. So, I'm not worried about that.

Michael Collier

The Survey doesn't have a clue how to get this out. I've gone out of my way to give out hundreds of copies. But it's haphazard. Unfortunately, there's no economic incentive to make it available.

Carl Feldbaum

a festive, colorful group ... (that) doesn't have a clue about what the biotechnology industry does.

Jack Barnes

Right now, we have no clue exactly what we're going to get from the state and exactly what we're going to get from the local. It's a guessing game on our part.

Suze Orman

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

James Awad

I don't think we'll get any big surprises in the economic news next week, ... What the market will be looking for are any clues that point to anything other than four percent GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

Agnus Berenato

We're clueless when it comes to that. We're 18-9 and we feel like we should go to the NCAA Tournament.

John Crowley

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

Chris Rock

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.

Jim Butcher

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Doug Ellin

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Terrence Roberts

The summer was just horrible after that because you're constantly thinking about that game and you can't wait for the next season. We definitely don't want to go out like we did last year.

Mike Nichols

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike McGann

The thing is with Sauk, is they do have some holes. They're constantly moving their lineup around and it's hard to keep sync on what they are going to do.

Larry Davis

Teams go through ebbs and flows during the season. It's rare that a team goes start to finish constantly climbing.

John Hagel III

Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we've done before. And in a world that's rapidly changing, that's a formula for vulnerability.

Johann Lamont

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

Tessanne Chin

I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.

Dale Romans

That part of it may be tough for us, but his pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too. He'll gallop 2 1/2 miles and never get tired. What I'm really hoping is the distance will make him that much better.

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

bell hooks

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Bobby Frankel

The extra distance is going to help him, too. It could be a hot pace.

Ken Bacon

easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.

Alberto Giacometti

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

Doug Larson

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

Dalai Lama

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

Adlai Stevenson

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

D. B. Sweeney

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Robert Anton Wilson

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Robert A. Heinlein

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Steve Coogan

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Tobias Wolff

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

V. S. Naipaul

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Kaskade

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Rupert Sanders

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Scott Rice

Meeting all the other filmmakers has been such a blessing,

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Evan Osnos

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Stan Hyman

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

Vaughn Taylor

I've been hitting it well and doing everything pretty well, really.

Vince Carter

I've been close. So it was fun. With Jason hitting the shots, I said, 'Jason, I need one more.' He said, 'I got you.' But I wound up getting it from RJ. Even better.

Rob Cosby

I've been kind of slow hitting this spring but today I feel great.

Phil Nevin

You should have been here, I was hitting fourth,

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Bob Shimp

The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes people, people from all over the world.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Sammy Cahn

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Sarah Dessen

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Renata Adler

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Ronald Reagan

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Laurence Sir

I said to Marilyn, 'Why can't you get here on time, for f*ck's sake?' And she replied, 'Oh, do you have that word in England, too?

Andrew Clements

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.