Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Liam Gallagher

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Mark Haddon

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Dick Cheney

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

John Nersesian

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

Christopher Nolan

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

James Keller

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

Brenda Ueland

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ...

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Brian Eno

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Rafael Nadal

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

Dallas Roberts

I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

Dustin Hoffman

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

Paul Weller

Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

David Horsey

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Dave Barry

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

David Remnick

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Charles Kuralt

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Cecily Strong

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.