Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

William Friedkin

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

William Golding

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

Omar Sharif

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Danny Simon

We just started the investigation, ... I wouldn't want to speculate if he was killed at the scene or somewhere else.

Deepak Chopra

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

Stellan Skarsgard

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

Tom McMillan

I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,

Washington Irving

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

Walter Scott

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Ovid

If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin

Rachel Sklar

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

Mike Colter

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

Paul Gauguin

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Jim Lewis

That's his job, and don't you dare take that away from him,

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.