Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Naomie Harris

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

Val McDermid

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

A. N. Wilson

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Cathleen Schine

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

Andy Enright

I woke up for about a minute, and I remember seeing Austen lying on the ground. I was so mad I couldn't help him. I felt paralyzed. I tried to tell him I loved him, but I couldn't talk.

Susanna Clarke

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

Sam Bertsch

We did a much better job of breaking things down and making the extra pass in the second half. Austen was a difference-make for us.

Simon Schama

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

David A. Bednar

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

Christina Baker Kline

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

John C. Calhoun

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

Brian Greene

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Eric Stoltz

It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.

Douglas Conant

Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.

Reuben Mark

We project double-digit earnings, and our expectation is we will be there for the year, wherever oil settles, because if it goes out of sight, our expectation is that we will be able to raise prices. Beyond that, we are less dependent on oil than many.

Tina Weymouth

Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

Seth Berkley

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.

David Thewlis

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

Clemence Poesy

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Colleen Atwood

People like to stir up the fashion vs. costume world, and I think what they mean by 'too costumey' is that it's too much, or not real enough for everyday wear. You couldn't say that about John Galliano's shows, right? I mean, they're awesome, and they're total costume.

Colleen Atwood

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Ginnifer Goodwin

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Virat Kohli

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen.

Richard Dean Anderson

Usually the science-fiction fan has some indication they're a sci-fi fan and, therefore, a 'Stargate' fan. In other words, they could be wearing a rubber head or some kind of costume or just a T-shirt that gives them away.

Patricia Norris

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

Andrea Phillips

We're not saying students can't dress up in women's clothing. But there's a difference between the one who dresses (like a woman) for a play, a costume party or Late Skate, and the one who might dress in a provocative way, in a sexual way, in a lewd way.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Peggy Cohen

We are having difficulty eating, sleeping and even functioning every day.

Max Stirner

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Bruce Hoffman

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,

Clive Granger

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

Steve North

We have had difficulty in enforcing the occupancy limit requirements,

David Stern

We've got teams that have been through stretches of difficulty. As fast as you can spell Clippers.

Kevin Duckworth

Were working to alleviate as much difficulty as possible by making sure the process in the parking lot runs smoothly ... and to make sure traffic is not in long lines,

Lord Falconer

We are not seeking a confrontation with the judiciary. They would have no difficulty with any legislation we might pass.

Bill Hader

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Reba McEntire

I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Nas

'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

Francia Raisa

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

Tuppence Middleton

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

Kelly McCreary

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.

Dave Roberts

When you win a game in dramatic fashion, it kind of re-energizes you,

Luke Pasqualino

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

G. Gordon Liddy

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind

Persius

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

J. C. Watts

We played and did everything right except score the last two points. We made a lot of good plays but shot ourselves in the foot in the end.

Chris Petersen

We play a lot of people. That way not everyone has to know everything we're doing, except for the quarterback. He has to know everything. Some teams have a tendency to play three, four receivers. We'll play seven or eight. Some teams play one or two running backs. We'll play five.

Tom Wopat

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Meriwether Lewis

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Eudora Welty

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Lucy Alibar

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Shel Silverstein

There Is A Voice Inside Of YouThat Whispers All Day Long,"I Feel That This Is Right For Me,I Know That This Is Wrong."No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, FriendOr Wise Man Can DecideWhat's Right For You- Just Listen ToThe Voice That Speaks Inside.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Marlon Wayans

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

William Williams

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.

Hank Greely

Unlike perusing your mail or tapping your phone, this is looking inside your brain.

Franco Tito

We're not really sure how many people were trapped inside. I talked with three survivors and they told me there could be 50 to 70 people inside when the tunnel collapsed.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Jane Austen

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Roger McGough

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Douglas Coupland

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Peter Riegert

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Alan Arkin

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.