Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Jules Verne

The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind. My eyes did not leave the Captain, who, with his hand stretched out to sea, was watching with a glowing eye the glorious wreck.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Silvestre Afable

We have reached our goal sooner than expected. The Philippine government is deeply satisfied. We are very happy that the MILF has responded with seriousness and commitment.

Suzanne Fields

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Stefan Johansson

Don't you think that is deeply offensive to homosexuals?

Condoleezza Rice

Even an initial reading of the report is deeply troubling.

Goldie Hawn

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

Royal Mail

Everyone who knew Mr Nunn is deeply shocked and upset by what happened,

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Steve Sanders

Some people don't see that I have different struggles on and off the field, ... It made me want to become a better man than I was.

Candace Bushnell

One has to be open-minded when the right man comes along. And I know it's freaky, but this just seems like the natural thing to do.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

John Bunyan

So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.

David Robinson

Some people talked about Tim like a dog. The way that man has performed over the years, I don't understand that.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Hebrew Proverb

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Bruce Scott

When I missed that I re-adjusted my sights for 2006.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Darrell Jackson

We had our opportunities. We just missed them.

Jim Calhoun

The other night, if we had played him 28, 29 minutes, he would have had over 40 points. And I'm not sure he would have missed a 3.

Matt Moore

With JT and Yve back there, it's going to be a big help. They are interchangeable. JT is a different runner, and he's bigger. We missed him Saturday. He's a threat back there.

Mike Aronson

We missed out on our opportunities in the first half. Fortunately, so did they. And then we were able to get going.

Edward Castro

We missed Mario. Without him, we were not able to press like we wanted to.

Fred Thompson

We missed him, but I don't think the outcome would have been any different.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Floyd Skloot

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.