Famous Quotes & Sayings

Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

Paul Gallico

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Paul Vixie

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

Paul Vixie

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Peter Stone

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.

Michael Gerber

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

John O'Hara

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

Jean Stafford

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Jean Stafford

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Jean Stafford

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Raymond Chandler

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Terry Goodkind

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Marge Piercy

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Marilyn Ferguson

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Lewis Grizzard

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

John Jakes

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Lloyd Alexander

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

William Pollard

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

John Gregory

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Cynthia Heimel

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

Mark Russell

Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy.

Will Cuppy

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Frederik Pohl

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Larry McMurtry

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.