Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Kristin Matthews

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

Sharon Stone

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

Sharon Stone

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life

Sarah Steele

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

Terry Hayes

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Edward Carey

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Enrico Colantoni

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Lydia Leonard

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Kurt Eichenwald

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

John Zimmerman

Carol Anne played real well during a tough round because of the weather delays.

Dawn Staley

I expect that this level will be the most challenging for me, being on the other side of the whistle. I'm going to approach this challenge the same way that I did as a player, helping Anne in any way that I can and doing whatever it takes to come away with nothing less than the gold.

Lindy Crews

I feel that Jo Anne represents the true meaning of community service.

John Dillon

The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.

Yu Zhiliang

When I entered the Manhattan School of Music, I felt great pressure living and studying away from home. Then I began to compose pieces, like writing diaries. Each piece is inspired by my own experience or the true stories of friends around.

Sharon Kay Penman

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

Stephan Pastis

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Aasif Mandvi

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Ashwin Sanghi

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity?

Ted Chiang

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Tom Curren

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Dennis Rogers

We know we couldn't hold the great start we began with. But we must start playing how we did in those first few games.

Michael Moorcock

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

Mark Hagen

But that guy has no fear of anything like that. Bernard has got a special knack for it.

Bruce Robinson

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Hubie Brown

There has not been a better post-up 6-6 or 6-7 player in the league than Bernard King.

Shelley Duvall

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

Luke Harding

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Nile Rodgers

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

Bernie Mac

My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'

Jermain Taylor

I give nothing but respect to Bernard Hopkins. He fought very well, and he has proven that he's a tough fighter and a true champion. But right now, I'm the champion. I feel like I am a champion.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Chloe Dao

She hates it. She did it all her life and she had to learn how to sew to survive. She couldn't fathom I want to sew because it is my dream.

Gary Gaetti

I can't fathom the destruction. It's the scope of the loss. It's knowing how long it's going to take to get things back to normal. There are parts of New Orleans that will never be the same.

Michelle Leslie

I can't even fathom how they must feel,

Dontrelle Willis

You have to be good, lucky and on a good team. ... I can't fathom having 18 wins. It's the same thing I felt when I had 15 wins.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it

Chauncey Billups

That's just crazy. I can't even fathom that. Wow.

Piers Anthony

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Chauncey Billups

That's crazy, man. I can't even fathom that. That's crazy.

John Hamm

I am prepared to sit down and listen to their concerns. Where that leads at this point I wouldn't want to fathom a guess,

Lynda Resnick

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

Kenneth R. Miller

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Todd Rundgren

That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.

Neneh Cherry

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Minnie Driver

Minnie is my nickname. Amelia's my real name. I'd love to be an Amelia, but frankly then I think I should be a German woman with a horned hat.

Diane Swonk

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

Harold MacMillan

Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good

Kevan Barlow

Right now, I'm not worried about Reggie at all. I've never really seen him play. I've seen highlights. I know he's got great highlights. I think we're solid at running back with me and Frank (Gore) and Mo (Hicks), but that's not my decision.

Keith Aili

I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Emun Elliott

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Jai Courtney

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

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.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.