Pages Quotes · Page 27

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

— Ian Somerhalder

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy…

— John Fante

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.…

— Anonymous

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be…

— Harry S. Truman

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

— Neil Gaiman

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free…

— Paul Ryan

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

— Dean Young

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

— Barbara Cartland

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be…

— Herbert J. Muller

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'.…

— January Jones

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue…

— Devon Monk

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with…

— Louis Farrakhan

The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in…

— Viggo Mortensen

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are…

— Herman Wouk

It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission…

— Shane Black

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big…

— Barack Obama

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters…

— Peter Golenbock

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields,…

— Alan Paton

From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop…

— Stuart Dybek

When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the…

— George Weigel

It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of…

— Stephen King

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must…

— Zachary Schomburg

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

— Tracy Chevalier

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric…

— Keith Teare

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

— Anonymous

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

— James C. Collins

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

— Cliff Chiang

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

— Sonia Sotomayor

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

— Viktor Yushchenko

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll…

— Elmore Leonard

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in…

— Russell Baker

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

— Maria Sharapova

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

— Amy Hempel

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

— Winston Graham

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I…

— Hailee Steinfeld

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on…

— Sandra Bullock