Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tavis Smiley

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy-I want to talk about the movie in a second-but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Wally Lamb

I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.

Oliver Herford

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

Of course I do care about the way my music is performed and so I cannot really say that I am not interested in how it is received.

Robert Fitzgerald

Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.

No one in the family played a musical instrument, we did not even possess one between us, all we had was a battered old gramophone, a 1920s model.

Gregg Easterbrook

I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.

Walter Lord

Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Michael Chabon

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Benjamin Hoff

That was when I began to get an idea: to write a book that explained the principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh, and explained Winnie-the-Pooh through the principles of Taoism.

Michael Chabon

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Michael Chabon

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Dick Bruna

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

Beverly Cleary

My books take place in a very specific neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It must be the most stable neighborhood in the United States.

Shelby Foote

Loneliness is one of the best things in the world for you. You do something about it: read, for instance, all kind of things, make friends.

John Shirley

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Russell Banks

I think probably in the earlier parts of my career I was influenced by writers such as Hawthorne and Melville - the American classics.

Marguerite Young

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Dashiell Hammett

I still think you are a pain in the neck.

Charles Phillips

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.

Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Judith Martin

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Richard Carlson

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.