Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

John Krasinski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Beth Grant

The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?

Italo Calvino

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

J. G. Ballard

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

Blake Bailey

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Aimee Bender

I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they're lively. They don't stick around because they're boring. If they're boring, they go away.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Paul Mitchell

We know his spirit will always be with us, ... He had 21 great years. Dylan is in a better place.

Bob Dylan

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

Bob Dylan

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

David Bolland

Hopefully, we can get Dylan those two more points this weekend. It's not every year you have three guys on the same team with 100 points.

Aaron Bender

Dylan threw strikes and that made for a good outing.

Dean Cappel

Dylan has only played football for two years after transferring in from Minnesota. We were a little disappointed in that penalty. We weren't happy to start on our 10.

Anthony Wall

I haven't detected the slightest hint of Dylan intervening or even wishing to intervene in the way that Scorsese has made the film.

Scott Westerfeld

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.

Mal Peet

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

Shay Cox

She was solid for us. She and (catcher) Emily Dixon are a great pair. She did a good job hitting her spots and playing right to our defense.

Dennis Dinsmore

She was last seen last (Friday) up around Mount Emily Road.

Mallory Ortberg

When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

James A. Michener

The really great writers are people like Emily Bront? who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Tig Notaro

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

John Hughs

We have not been contacted by anybody. Emily is ready to skate anytime, anywhere. Right now she's preparing for the world championships.

Ryan Burroughs

Katie DeGraaf is looking really good, which is important with Emily out.

Jeff Bridges

I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

Hugh Laurie

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Siri Hustvedt

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Prophet Joseph Smith lived in troubled times.

Peter Abrahams

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Scott Taylor

It isn't like Joseph needs to program stuff that's really controversial,

Marguerite Young

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Bible Bible

And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Michael Robinet

Toyota is sitting on a pile of money.

James Smith

It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.

Mike Hanson

We did 18 piles yesterday and will keep going today. We plan to be there until Friday.

Antony Beevor

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

John Schuerholz

There's a lot of it still on the table. Big piles of it.