Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew O'Hagan

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

David A. Adler

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

Bruce Wilkinson

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

Bernardo Bertolucci

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Bill Veeck

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Man Ray

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Bruce Lee

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Guy Finley

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Henry Rollins

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

Megan Fox

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Sergio Aragones

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Steve Breen

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Shepard Smith

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Barbara Corcoran

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.