Clarence Big House Gaines Quotes

#1. Narinder squeezed the giant bottle of washing-up liquid until her fingers touched through the plastic. All she got was bubbles and farts.

Sunjeev Sahota

#2. Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

Elizabeth Bowen

#3. We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.

Jasper Fforde

#4. If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

William L. McKnight

#5. The virtue of a piece is the writer's thoughts.

Joan Acocella

#6. When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?!

Jean Van De Velde

#7. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

#8. We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.

Barack Obama

#9. The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

Michele Landis Dauber

#10. When I get to the part about Jess kissing me on the Fourth of July and taking me to her beach house,I look at my father and wonder what it is like, seeing people only through a wall of glass. Never touching them.

Carolee Dean

#11. Write about daily life as you would write history.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Carl Linnaeus

#13. If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Shooter Jennings