Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Isabel Sanford

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Billy Graham

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Jeff Hawkins

The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.

Ramon Magsaysay

The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.

Bee Wilson

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Denis Villeneuve

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Peter Morgan

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Paolo Bacigalupi

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

H. Rap Brown

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

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.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

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

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

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.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.