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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the first time in my literary career I have not gotten on the main talk shows in the morning. This year, I was turned down on all three shows.

Manute Bol

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

I do think there is passion and there is interest in hockey. Now the question is, can you translate that throughout a season. We think so.

I do write a little SF in my spare time.

Michael Chabon

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.