Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Carol Kane

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol P. Christ

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

C. S. Lewis

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Agnes Smedley

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

Alan Thicke

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

Alan Shearer

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Alan King

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Edgar Guest

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

Gina Barreca

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Teddy Pendergrass

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Seth

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.