Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Krist

Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

Linda Sherry

Marketing gimmicks are pretty popular right now. Issuers have to try to separate themselves from the pack.

Linda Sherry

Marketing gimmicks are pretty popular right now, ... Issuers have to try to separate themselves from the pack.

Barbara Corcoran

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Russ Kinnel

Any time you have a super-narrow universe and rationalize other stuff that's out there, it's a sure sign it's a gimmick fund.

Cornel West

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Ariel Sharon

I understand the importance of peace much better than a lot of politicians do who talk about it. With me, peace will be a peace for generations and not a gimmick of the elections.

Mindy Kaling

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

Jimi Hendrix

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Issac Marsh

Jonathan Elliott ran very well. To have him at tailback and to have our starting tailback, Stephen Nicholson, back next week, it ought to be interesting to see.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

Lauren Worsham

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Natalie Massenet

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Carl Cornwell

In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

Dean Ryan

There were a lot of things we were unhappy about on the pitch. Jonathan Kaplan is a world-class referee but the Premiership is different. To come in on a one-off was unfair - for him and for us.

John Murphy

I don't think there's going to be any major changes. As president, Jonathan was pretty much running all the operations of the company. Scott was working on strategy and longer-term vision.

Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Ellis Rubin

Lionel wanted to make sure he had the right to appeal.

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Mario Vargas Llosa

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

John McTiernan

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Steven Wright

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

Adrian McKinty

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Anthony Mackie

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Raymond E. Feist

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

Lawrence Block

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Robert Rodriguez

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

Rob Thomas

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

Stephanie Plowman

There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.