Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

William Shatner

You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting.

Robin Wright

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

Salvador Dali

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

William Randolph Hearst

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

William Boyd

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

William Kennedy

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

Sandra Cisneros

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

Sam Waterston

Painting is very interesting.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Emily Dickinson

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Kenneth Oppel

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Pythagoras

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

June Jordan

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Georg Simmel

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Madame de Stael

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]