Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kiesza

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Joe Paterno

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

John Eldredge

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

Timothy Noah

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Kevin Kelly

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Robert Casey

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

Terry Jones

It is a conundrum for us more than for the advertisers because we have to find a way over time to get paid for this information. For a Web site that derives some revenues from ads, it's our problem, and we have to figure out the right model.

Steve Schroeder

People are not going out golfing, so they're not paying their green fees, which is where the facility derives its revenue. It's a severe impact every day it rains.

James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Adnan Pachachi

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

Toni Lydman

We're going home with a medal, so I guess it's not all that bad.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Erica Jong

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Candace Cameron Bure

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

Charles Bronson

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

Dane Cook

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Anna Kendrick

I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Courtney Beasley

We're just going to get better. We learned a lot as a team, and I know I learned a lot as a player. Now, we have to take what we've learned and get better.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

Laila Ali

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Erin Cahill

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

Khloe Kardashian

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Mark Walter

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Godfrey Gao

'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Dennis Ross

When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.