Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Julian Tavarez

My first reaction was to throw a punch because I thought he was going to come after me. You know what they say - whoever throws the first punch gets the win.

Will Rogers

One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next

Shaun Alexander

I think they talk a lot of mess. That kind of gets me excited.

Charles Davis

I think there's always a risk of overthinking the game, especially when it gets tight,

Dale Jackson

I think there is some value in people raising little turtles if it gets them interested in reptiles. But we don't need them raising red-eared turtles if they are subsequently released in nature.

Christopher Sutton

Just because they are inmates doesn't mean they should not be treated humanely. The way it is now, it won't be long before someone gets killed over there.

J. Taylor

Just be looking down the other end. If he gets that right 95 times out of 100, he's a good umpire.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

John Green

So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

Jonathan Carroll

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

Jonah Hill

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Jonah Hill

People who are just in a restaurant that you would never know are international arms dealers is kind of interesting, they're at the table next to you and you have no idea, you never know what everyone's up to.

Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Katey Sagal

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Josh Klinghoffer

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Josh Hutcherson

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Louis Dudek

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Heinrich Heine

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry James

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Henry James

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Helen Vendler

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.