Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Chang-Rae Lee

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

Mark Recchi

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

Sebastiao Salgado

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

Bruce Rauner

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Robert Grimes

We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

Fergal Smith

We had a pretty decent pull-back in spot gold, so I think there is some profit-taking here.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

John Gunter

We had a pretty good season. It was fairly satisfying.

Ian Blair

Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.

Jodi Manore

We actually played fairly well. We're just trying to focus on playing well on our side of the net.

Richard Harris

Up front played fairly solid, but not sound. I want to get them sound and solid.

Clementa C. Pinckney

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Peter Jurasik

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

John Lasseter

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

Jeff Goodby

was just throbbing out there, waiting to be appropriated.

Chris Paulitz

We're just going to wait for the markup.

Craig Patrick

We're done negotiating. We're just waiting for the answer.

Michel Lu

We have to wait for confirmation (of the reports) from our embassy. After this, we will see what we will do.

Morten Olsen

We have to wait and see after today's training.

Rex Norman

We don't have any word for sure. On the record, I know what you know - which is wait for the announcement ... but there has been speculation.

Linda Cox

We'll wait to see if DOE approves it.

Jake Siewert

We'll wait and see how it comes out in the Senate.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Arthur Bryant

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

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.

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

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.