Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augustus

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Oscar Wilde

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Bob Dylan

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Debra Winger

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Confucius

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Confucius

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

Confucius

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

Andre Maurois

A gentleman is never in a hurry.

Ambrose Bierce

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Chris Carpenter

A few years ago, I never thought I was going to play again, ... And I go from coming back and winning the comeback player to winning the Cy Young the year after that. It's a crazy feeling.

Steve Harvey

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

Devin Harris

That first half wasn't us. Defensively, I don't know where we were. Mars, maybe. But that comeback at the end of the second quarter set up our second half.

Thomas Muster

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

Ken Hitchcock

He scored so many big goals for me in Dallas. It was frightening how many big goals he scored. The '98 and '99 seasons, he had comeback goals, clinching goals, important goals. That was it. Not the goals he scored, but the importance of the goals he scored.

Gavin Henson

Whatever. Don't you know it's my comeback week?

Scott Skiles

We're not worried about where we are. We were 10 games under .500 in March and that would be quite a comeback if we win on Wednesday (and finish 41-41).

Sergio Garcia

To comeback from that double-bogey and shoot six-under from there, that was a pretty good effort. I've been working a lot on my putting and its time to make things happen. It great to see putts going in. It is a new feeling for me and its a wonderful one. Hopefully we can keep it going like this.

The Vikings

I think a comeback would be possible, but not advisable,'' Smith said.