Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Grisham

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Michelle Moran

I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.

It's a new chapter. It's like a photo album. In the GMC we took all our pictures, but that's won, done and over. Now, we have a new page to create.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Gillian Jacobs

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

Julia Cameron

I am due at the page.

Steven Morrissey

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

Joe Greene

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Garrett Hedlund

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Philip Greenspun

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

James Fenton

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Genevieve Bujold

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Emilie Autumn

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

Sean William Scott

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Lily King

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

Taraji P. Henson

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Paul LePage

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

Joe Pantoliano

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Emmanuelle Beart

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Lewis Black

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

Karen Kingsbury

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

Lindsey Shaw

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Maisie Williams

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

Joanna Kerns

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.