Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Stephen Bayley

We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Dean Koontz

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Terry Jones

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Tullian Tchividjian

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Elizabeth Bishop

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Sam Morris

We want to remove organic material from the municipal solid waste stream and divert it to a higher and better use.

Ron Shock

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

Bennett Miller

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

David Foster

To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would need to handle six new trains per hour, not per day.

Ashok Kumar

We had to divert considerable resources from planning and development to security related matters.

Barry Hyman

I think it's just more of the same. The Nasdaq is quickly approaching 5,000 and it's hard to divert money back to traditional stocks when the opportunities are so phenomenal in the new world economy.

Dalton Gooding

When that statement was made, it highlighted the significance of the situation. We will not divert from that statement.

Benjamin Franklin

Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert

Tom Rath

This is very much going to divert the agenda,

Robert Hill

Our position is that, in terms of all of us wanting to get an effectual international outcome, to settle rules without the U.S being party is, in effect, to shut the door,

Palitha Kohona

There is a limit to entertaining excuses. The package of excuses may have now run out.

Tom Goodman-Hill

If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Tim Allen

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

Eloise Mumford

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

Eric Stonestreet

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

Candace Cameron Bure

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

Louise Nurding

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Jane Austen

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Charles de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Erik Davis

There are a lot of faithful Vanderbilt fans who haven't had an opportunity like this.

Richard G. Scott

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Elizabeth Edwards

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

David Hume

A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

Eli Manning

I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

Kevin Carter

We're going to find out who really wants to play and who really loves football.

Jennifer Gray

She has a lot of social stimulation and she loves music, so she has singing activities, ... She's safe and well-cared for - I know that.

Joe Martin

She always wanted to do music, she loves performing and composition.

Sarah Doukas

She loves modelling - and she needs to be busy.

Laura Moore

She's so in shape and she loves sports.

Curtis Jackson

She's a typical girl. She loves shoes. She loves going shoe shopping, right in mom's closet.

Sally Zimmerman

She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear.

Dan Hendricks

We're set for the Santa Catalina. He's here, he loves this track, so why leave?

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

Richard Lies

I was pleasantly surprised after about the first day or two. I could see that it was going to go just fine.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Aidan Quinn

I think it's a pretty down-the-middle, wholesome show.