Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizzie Brochere

In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!

Theodore Roethke

Wake the happy words.

Patti LaBelle

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Paul Newman

Fill the moment and find variety.

David O. Russell

Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

David Ogilvy

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Jack Kerouac

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Guy de Maupassant

You must render: never report.

For the past two years in the Craftsman Truck Series, we've been trying to learn everything we can about NASCAR racing.

Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

Henry James

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Martin Luther

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Joss Whedon

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Martin Rees

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Madeleine L'Engle

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

John Fowles

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Peter Guber

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Mary Oliver

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Joshua Foer

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I take my craft very seriously.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Robert Bly

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Ronald Reagan

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Steve Lacy

Make the drummer sound good.

Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be.

Ralph Ellison

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.