Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Kessel

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

David Conyers

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

Dave Morris

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

Benjamin Rush

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Dan Smith

Maybe I'll find something that I wouldn't find back home. I've been around (the country), and there are some books that are only sold regionally, since their authors are from those areas.

Dan Kammen

The assumptions made by some of the authors were not based on the best data, or were just a little bit too convenient, and had a strong impact on the results.

Chevy Stevens

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

Christopher Nolan

I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

Julie Kagawa

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Lisa Smith

Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of violence messaged to me. People stopped me on my way to class. I was told my self-worth in about 20 words or less.

Dr. Bastian

Overall our feedback has been good. We're hopeful.

Connor Franta

Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool.

Greg Brenneman

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

Kenny Walker

For me personally, he always was very supportive and gave very positive feedback about my playing. He called me to play. I've always appreciated that.

Aaron Hill

He's helped me through everything, really. Having Johnny Mac to really show me everything and giving you positive feedback -- how I'm doing, how I'm looking. It's always good to have someone there.

Asa Dotzler

If the feedback doesn't turn up anything horrible in the next half day or so, we'll be in a great position to ship this beta.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Tim Pernetti

More importantly, Pete is a great person, and terrific to work with. A true team player in every sense, who's always looking for feedback and striving to get better.

Trevor Linden

Regardless of whether you're a fan, a hockey player, a coach, a manager, a media writer, it feels good to be talking hockey again,

Lauren Jackson

Our long-term focus is Beijing. For us to now know what it feels like to win gold is huge. We can only get better from here.

Terry Donahue

Our No. 1 priority was to keep our team intact, and we did that. I think the team feels it's good. It sees the talent level we have. You can't fool players. Players know players. I think our team feels we're going to be a good team.

Buddy Bell

Optimistically, we're hoping he'll be back in the lineup Tuesday, ... Today is Saturday. Hopefully he'll feel good tomorrow and be able to do something, see how it feels on Monday and play Tuesday.

Liz Honegger

People have been talking about it for a while, and it feels good to get it over with and maybe I can start playing.

Rob James-Collier

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

Fiona Sigalla

People here are quick to tell you that they remember what overbuilding feels like.

Dennis Haysbert

Success has come late in my life, but it feels right for me now. And better to come late than never.

Larry Brown

Our young kids want to be part of this. I think Isiah feels the same way.

Jan Yager

Part of a rut is a routine, and a routine is not a negative; it can be positive and be comforting.

Ryan Shupe

Our songs are a celebration of life, ... A lot of our songs are hopeful, overall. There are some sad songs, but you come away from them seeing the positive side. That's the spirit of the RubberBand.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Beck

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Stuart Hoffman

I think the report was quite strong and will ultimately be positive for stocks.

Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Pat Riley

That was a positive note. You could tell he was comfortable.

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

B. R. Ambedkar

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

B. R. Ambedkar

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

Bhagat Singh

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Carrie Brownstein

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Carrie Fisher

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carl Safina

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Rogers

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.