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 ...

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Terry McGowan

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Stacey Phillips

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Banksy

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

David Cross

There is nothing interesting about just seeing me doing the show then seeing the fans and how much people love me.