Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Dunnett

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Struan Robertson

We wanted to provide as much of a simulation of the golf swing as we could without making the game as tough as the real sport. Professional golfers have a huge variety of shots available, not just shots they choose from a menu before they play them. We've made the analogue swing even more analogue.

Jim Collins

We're an entrainment company, so content is prime and we want to preserve the quality of the programming. As this is satellite radio, not analogue radio, you do have some limitations, but we felt that 50 hours of recordable capability went a long way to satisfying demand.

Rob Enderle

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

Andy Duncan

The strategy we are pursuing is designed to transition Channel 4 from a single analogue channel to a multi-media operation, capable of delivering its public remit via whatever platform audiences choose.

Nick Horne

At the moment, we have more opportunities than engineers. The right staff have ample chance not only to exploit their core skill of digital or analogue circuit design, but also to get involved with the wider mixed-signal IC team to integrate the various circuit elements, to verify and test the design, and bring the complete solution to market.

Chantal Claret

There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue equipment and Gil Norton.

Teju Cole

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year.

Reint Dykema

Solidarity members joined in at midnight. There are no formal offers at this point.

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Karen Henderson

There are people who think this is a more formal place, for holidays.

Samantha Harvey

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

Emma Udwin

There is no intention ... to undertake any formal restrictive measures that could hurt the population as a whole.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Matt Thomas

We would go to the coffeehouse on campus, and there wasn't much of a tea selection. When we went to the tea houses, we found them to be mostly formal and food-focused.

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Dave Attell

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Cherrie Moraga

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Jean Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Bible Bible

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

Randy Pausch

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Jennifer Grey

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Nolan North

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

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.