Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Goodell

Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.

Denise Monteiro

We don't know why they were fleeing New York.

David Eagleman

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Sean Penn

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

Karl Kraus

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Umberto Eco

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Charles Barkley

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Chris Evert

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Donna Brazile

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

Michael Moore

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

Shimon Peres

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Mike Jackson

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.