Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Reid Hoffman

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

William Shatner

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Will Estes

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Robin Ince

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

Sarah McLachlan

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.

Virgil

Love conquers all things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one's work.

William Butler Yeats

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

Jonathan Evison

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.