Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Steve Bruce

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

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.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

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.

Jimmy Epperly

Basically, Woods shut us down in the middle.

Kevin Roberts

If we need to shut down, we're prepared.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Vin Scully

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

Dana Altman

There will be no whining or complaining from us.

Seth Godin

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Maya Angelou

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

Hillary Clinton

I can't stand whining.

Billy Corgan

We've turned into a whining society.

Woody Allen

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

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.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

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.

Arthur Bryant

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

Lois Lowry

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

Charlaine Harris

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