Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kent Krueger

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Vikram Seth

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

John Boyne

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Emma McLaughlin

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.

Paul Weller

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

Virginia Henley

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

Carly Fiorina

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Damien Chazelle

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

Pierce Brosnan

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

Teruhisa Ishikawa

The reaction was somewhat muted here. But sentiment looks weak since the market has failed to return to the level where it was before the news.

Andy Hill

We have underachieved. We have failed at every opportunity to make the big play; that's what's gotten us. We've been spending a lot of time on fundamentals, and we're going to have to keep on doing that because we have young kids.

Mark Kotsay

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that executes all the time and that's our game. We failed today at moving the guys over.

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Brian Sky

We will not only teach film but will also do some production and distribution.

Perry Florio

We got production from all of our lines.