Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Rick Moody

What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America.

Richard Russo

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Judith Krantz

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Joe Wilson

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Greg Vaughn

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Ben Hecht

Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Naomi Mitchison

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the central characters would have a happy ending, but it was quite difficult sometimes to get them out of trouble.

Robert Pinsky

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Ron Krumer

One could say that the life of the prime minister is in danger.

Donald Black

I see no danger is seeing persons spending a dollar on a lottery ticket, but I have had patients who spend enormous amounts of money just on the lottery,

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Tom Guiry

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

Ben Bova

We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... And I think the lesson we've learned is, if you have nuclear weapons, you probably don't dare use them.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Robert Greenstein

The real danger is that the employers market erodes fast.

Elaine Deck

And they don't have to work nights, and they don't have to work weekends and face danger.

Proverb Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

Dar Williams

Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?

Thomas Chalmers

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?

David Jason

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

William Blake

Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.

Craig Barlow

I'm sure we looked like fools down there, ... but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Wolfgang Thierse

I see no truly persuasive reasons to overturn this decision.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.