Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Joel Siegel

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

David Brock

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

Darryl F. Zanuck

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Bruce Vilanch

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Barbara Olson

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

Barry Levinson

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

Bill Sienkiewicz

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Gerry Cooney

When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.

Gerald Chertavian

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.

Benjamin Tucker

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

Edgar Winter

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Luke Scott

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Galen Rowell

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Galen Rowell

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

Galen Rowell

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

Galen Rowell

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

James Howard Kunstler

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.