Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Traviss

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

Christine Lahti

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Larry Scott

The players aren't only great athletes, they are also fashion icons and this idea complements the crossover between sport and fashion.

Paulo Costanzo

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.

Matthew Morrison

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

Ken Dunham

If someone starts capitalizing on the crossover worm, and we start to see increased activity, then we can talk about a global threat. It's a little premature at this time.

Jack Collins

I think the small crossover segment will grow. It is not a fad. It will be sustaining.

Skrillex

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

Timothy Simons

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Carlos Beltran

I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Carl Crawford

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

Graham Cluley

We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business.

Chad Moeller

We have to go back home and win, plain and simple. Obviously, we would have liked to win some more games here, but it's done, it's over with, and we need to go back home and win now.

Mark Maloney

We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first three games were going to be tough for us.

Richard Attias

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

Ken Johnson

We wanted to use those first three games to get better. I think we did.

Randy Russell

We wanted to try it. We were running out of dates. (The schedule of games Thursday) is not a great order, but we'll give it a whirl.

Alan Turing

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Ben Wallace

There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Janet Jackson

I don't have a lot of friends.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Floyd Skloot

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Alan Furst

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.