Famous Quotes & Sayings

Su Shin

They tried to stretch as long as possible by dipping into tax reserves.

Melissa McCarthy

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

Kevin Sneddon

(Providence) played with a great sense of urgency from the start, and we were kind of dipping our toes in the water to see what the temperature was. But we woke up at that point and played really, really well from the time they scored to the end of the game.

Brian Newbacher

We're hearing that some stations are dipping their toe in the water over $3 now.

John Masefield

One road leads to London, / One road runs to Wales, / My road leads me seawards / To the white dipping sails.

Walter Murch

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

Steve Squyres

It's very similar in composition, with very similar textures when you look at it with a microscope, but it's dipping in all different directions. What it says is that the geology around here is pretty complicated.

John Podesta

They are well on their way to dipping into the Social Security surplus, ... They ought to stop lying about it.

Steven Kosiak

We're long past the point where you can just look at the DoD budget. Now we're dipping so much into war-related funding.

Stevie Nicks

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

John Sacchi

It's a feather in his cap. The judges that voted were impressed with his style and his aggressiveness. He had a solid tournament.

Chris McCarron

It's a perfect fit, ... We need a lot of horses, and this will be a big feather in our cap.

Liam Payne

The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

Dave Pasqualicchio

We feel with our name recognition, it?s another feather in their cap.

Phil Frame

The quality of the Web cam is so good you can see their feathers move up and down as they breathe. This is pretty remarkable.

Morgan Hallett

Let's just say that when you put on those feathers it isn't hard. You just have to tap into the side of you that is screaming to jump out.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Johnny Miller

We were very close. We hunted everything with hair and feathers together.

Proverb

A market is three women and a goose

Sandy Shilstone

The streetcar will be back. I know the first time I hear the clanging of the bells, I will have goose bumps.

Edward MacMahon

That's not a wild goose chase. That's bingo.

Bob Collins

We are doing a phenomenal job with their brands, and our plan is to be a long-term Goose Island distributor.

Fred A. Allen

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose

Chris Phillips

It's huge. Obviously, I'm the last guy with the big goose egg, and it seemed like it was getting talked about more and more. ... It's nice to not have a zero sitting there.

Mike Mason

We're not going to go on a wild goose chase.

Iain Banks

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

Sarah Paulson

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

Irish Proverbs

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.

John Updike

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Jane Hirshfield

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Daniel Handler

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

Eric Gale

The red ink in the market is no more than expected.

Tim Tebow

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

Michael Cunningham

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

Jewel

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Jack Kerouac

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

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.

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.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Alice McDermott

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Ruth Glick

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Jim Morris

When we got out of college, we wanted to save the world. And now, we are able to save a little piece of it.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

John Milton

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Jeb Bush

We've got a response team that is second to none, ... We will get through this storm and respond quickly.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Thomas Jones

It's adversity, but I think we'll be able to respond well,

Jon Gruden

It's a big game. I've been warned of that. 'How are you going to respond to winning? How are you going to respond to losing?' Let's just respond, you know.

John Hannah

As long as we see the need, we'll respond to the need.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Roger Levine

You must respond to the notice. Don't put it off,

Elizabeth Thornton

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Jerry Colangelo

It's a sensitive deal. It'd be inappropriate for him to be out front.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

George H. W. Bush

This is a sensitive time for the budget.

Hugo Ch

This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Serena Williams

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Jeremy Osborne

It's very ambiguous. It was specifically written to be ambiguous.

Terrence McNally

This play was written for these 11 actors just as 'Master Class' was written for Zoe Caldwell, or 'Frankie and Johnny' was written for Kathy Bates,

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Paul Theroux

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

Damien Chazelle

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.