Pages Quotes - Page 4

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

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

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.

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.

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

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.