Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

Dick Bruna

Then one day I thought it would be nice to try to draw that rabbit and make a little story of it - and that's how Miffy started.

Sara Teasdale

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Margaret Haddix

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

Robert Fitzgerald

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Richard Grant

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It's hard for me to talk about anything I'm doing at the moment. It's only after I finish something that I can actually describe it in words.

Ted Nelson

I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Richard Grant

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Robert Asprin

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

Michael Chabon

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

Robert McCloskey

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

R. A. Salvatore

Okay, I'm exaggerating, but the truth is that the Internet can be a powerful tool, both positive and negative, to a writer's career.

William Feather

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

Mark Twain

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.

Michael Chabon

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Kate DiCamillo

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Laura Hillenbrand

The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

Terry McMillan

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

Norman Spinrad

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

James Beard

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Sam Levenson

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Rose Kennedy

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.