Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 3710.
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The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
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The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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