Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Mike Sellers

They weren't winning. They was just another team in the league. Now, they're the bomb. I can't take nothing away from them. But back then, they were nothing. And they had those hideous uniforms, too.

Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Vin Scully

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

Jeromy Palki

When he (Cal Ripken) talked, I shut up and listened.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Brian Randle

We were shut down. For this team to do that, it's just not acceptable.

Pete Maysmith

We need to stop that system and shut it down.

Charles Hudson

We're not trying to shut down all hydro operations,

Willie Reid

We had to shut up all our critics.

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Maya Angelou

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Billy Corgan

We've turned into a whining society.

Hillary Clinton

I can't stand whining.

Seth Godin

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Dana Altman

There will be no whining or complaining from us.

Woody Allen

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

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.