Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Karen Meredith

It would drive me insane to overhear the conversation of the guy in the next seat.

Rob Young

That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Dick Cheney

They can do whatever they want to do. I know what I want to do. What I want to do is have a conversation with the American people. I would like to have people who watch the debate come away with an understanding of what our proposals are.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Source Unknown

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

Friedrich Hegel

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.

Phil Boyce

Warner has free rein. It's a policy I've only second-guessed one or two times.

Don Evans

We are a nation of free men and free traders. Now is no time for small plans or shrinking ambitions,

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

James Jordan

I've learned it's a lot more than what people see.

James Reed

I've learned a lot from him, ... I still learn a lot every time I talk to him.

Michel Faber

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

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

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.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tina Fey

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.