Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Gendreau

They take part in parades all over the Northeast.

P. J. O'Rourke

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

Oriana Fallaci

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Elliott Smith

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

Pete Townshend

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

W. H. Auden

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Richard Foreman

Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.

Michael Ian Black

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.