Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Enderle

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

Jim Collins

We're an entrainment company, so content is prime and we want to preserve the quality of the programming. As this is satellite radio, not analogue radio, you do have some limitations, but we felt that 50 hours of recordable capability went a long way to satisfying demand.

Dorothy Dunnett

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Andy Duncan

The strategy we are pursuing is designed to transition Channel 4 from a single analogue channel to a multi-media operation, capable of delivering its public remit via whatever platform audiences choose.

Chantal Claret

There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue equipment and Gil Norton.

Struan Robertson

We wanted to provide as much of a simulation of the golf swing as we could without making the game as tough as the real sport. Professional golfers have a huge variety of shots available, not just shots they choose from a menu before they play them. We've made the analogue swing even more analogue.

Nick Horne

At the moment, we have more opportunities than engineers. The right staff have ample chance not only to exploit their core skill of digital or analogue circuit design, but also to get involved with the wider mixed-signal IC team to integrate the various circuit elements, to verify and test the design, and bring the complete solution to market.

Teju Cole

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Stephen Morris

We really need to understand what's happened and what steps have been taken to rectify problems. In one of those incidents where an outage has occurred, there really needs to be a formal communications strategy put in place. We really need to be kept informed.

Joseph Towle

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

James Gray

His work, though formal and precise, displays an exceptional understanding of the limits and uses of formalism and precision.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year.

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

John Paquette

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Nina Garcia

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Dave Attell

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Charles Palliser

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

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.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Cherrie Moraga

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Jean Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Bible Bible

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

Randy Pausch

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

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

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

James O'Shea

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

Jennifer Grey

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Nolan North

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.