Pages famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,
-- A. O. Scott -
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
-- Abdul Kalam -
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
-- Abigail Adams -
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
-- Aimee Bender -
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...
-- Aimee Bender -
Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
-- Alan Ball -
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
-- Alan Shepard -
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
-- Alan Shepard -
I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
-- Albert Brooks -
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that
-- Albert Lee -
Life happened because I turned the pages.
-- Alberto Manguel -
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
-- Alexis De Veaux -
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!
-- Algis Budrys -
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him
-- Alissa York -
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
There is no beginning that is a blank page,
-- Amitava Kumar -
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
-- Amos Lee -
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
-- Andy Warhol -
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
-- Anne Campbell -
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
-- Anne Carson -
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
-- Anne Enright -
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
-- Anne Lamott -
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
-- Anne Lamott -
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
-- Anne Perry -
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
-- Anne Perry -
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
-- Anne Tyler -
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.
-- Anthony de Jasay -
One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.
-- Arthur Christiansen -
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
-- Ashley Scott -
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
-- Austin Peck -
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
-- Ayn Rand -
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
-- Barbara Cartland -
I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
-- Ben Cross -
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.
-- Ben Schwartz -
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
-- Bernard Baruch -
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.
-- Betsy Lerner -
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
-- Beverly Lewis -
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.
-- Bill Moyers -
Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
-- Blaine Hogan -
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
-- Bob Beauprez -
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
-- Bob Dylan -
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages
-- Bob Dylan -
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.
-- Bob Weir -
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
-- Bobby Farrelly -
You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me...
-- Bobby V -
I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.
-- Bradley Cooper -
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
-- Brian Selznick -
Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web
-- Brian Solis -
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
-- Brody Dalle -
I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.
-- Bunny Yeager -
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,
-- Burton Malkiel -
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
-- C. S. Lewis -
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
-- C. Wright Mills -
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
-- C.D. Wright -
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
-- Candice Accola -
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
-- Candice Millard -
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.
-- Carole King -
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
-- Charlaine Harris -
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
-- Charlaine Harris -
It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.
-- Charlene Li -
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
-- Charles Frazier -
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
-- Charles Simic -
There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.
-- Charlie Day -
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
-- Chauncey Depew -
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -
...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22
-- Chetan Bhagat -
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.
-- Chris Ware -
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429
-- Christopher Paolini -
I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.
-- Christopher Pike -
Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.
-- Christopher Pike -
I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.
-- Chuck D -
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
-- Clara Shih -
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
-- Clay Shirky -
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.
-- Cliff Stearns -
If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.
-- Clifford Stoll -
Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.
-- Clifford Stoll
