Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cate Blanchett

Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.

Pete Best

Paul's had a great career, and he's having a great career. And you have to admire him for his courage. He was courageous enough after the Beatles broke up to say, 'I'm going back on the road,' and he formed Wings.

Mary Bono

People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and set an example through their actions. We parents want our children to respect and admire our president and our leaders. It is as simple as the old story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

Robin Birley

Otis is amazing, ... I admire him. He has an amazing way with animals.

Swin Cash

Playing in a wheelchair is a lot harder than it looks, ... These athletes have so much courage and determination - I really admire them.

Teresa Heinz

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.

Kulbir Ghumman

I want you to know I admire you enormously for that.

Marguerite Young

Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style.

Sean Rushton

Janice Brown ... is admired like no other among conservatives, and that counts, I'd love to have that fight.

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.

Jess Glynne

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jason Isbell

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.

Linda Lewis

Kids want to imitate what it is they see in the media.

Luis Santiago

Kids often imitate everything that they see. They try to imitate the shooting and the cops. . . . They see it as fun.

Christy Byers

She (Senate) tried to imitate another style that just didn't work for her.

Stendhal

She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Ernst Fischer

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Clem Burke

We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.

Jeff Lemire

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.

Patrick Valenzuela

Mr. Lewis made me part of the Budweiser family. Which is pretty ironic, when you think about it.

Ernie Accorsi

Lewis was different because he not only was a starter here a year ago, he had been here since the 2000 season. When someone like that walks back into your locker room, they're popular, they're known, they've been a teammate.

James Johnson

Lewis really understands the game. He can run a team.

Cindy Mydland

Lewis Drug is a partnership that we've done with several Sioux Valley clinics.

Bart Chilton

I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

Buzz Aldrin

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

Jonathan Vilma

What can Ray Lewis do that you can't do?

Marshall Bloom

We wanted a unique perspective on Lewis and Clark.

Christopher Plummer

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Diablo Cody

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

Gaston Bachelard

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Jerzy Kosinski

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Howard Nemerov

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Jacques Derrida

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Muhammad Iqbal

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The freedom of poetic license.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.

Roy Barnhart

Our students will not be the only ones using this building.

Margie Feinberg

Our students have been shortchanged for so long.

Nelson Fields

Our better students tend to op for the (Bachelor of Arts) program.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

Deborah Moore

That's a violation and could place the students eligibility in jeopardy.

Heather Hillman

I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.