Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Baker

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Travis Hafner

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Woody Allen

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

Walter Benjamin

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Saul Bellow

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Winston Churchill

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.