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More than you can shake a stick at
PROVERB We have absolutely blown the doors off the number of duck callers this year. There's going to be mor...
JACK NUGENT We're trying to encourage shorter, high-quality submissions in addition to the long packages we get.
SIG GISSLER I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.
JASON CHAFFETZ I'm sure he wanted better. But a 73 is nothing to shake a stick at.
DENNIS ERLICH![]()
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO![]()
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one...
FRANK ZAPPA![]()
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love...
FRANK ZAPPA![]()
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were g...
BABYFACE My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.
IRENE TOMKINSON Are there different calls that stick with you? ... Hard to shake them off?
JUDITH IVEY One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO He understood. We kept him until the end. There aren't too many times when a non-roster guy gets mor...
JIM HENDRY What I get more than anything [from fans] is you've got to stick it out. He needs you.
JENNIFER MORRISON![]()
Once you agree, then pinky swear and spit-shake that you will both stick to the budget.
DAVE RAMSEY The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES![]()
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It'...
WILLIAM BOYD![]()
A lot of movies at this festival were struggling to find distributors, ... This film was fortunate e...
IVAN REITMAN There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an...
PHILIP M. PARKER People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p...
IAN K. SMITH We threw a few guys at (Lucas) trying to keep fresh legs, and there were a couple of times we tried ...
DAN STOLZ [The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's hel...
WILL DANFORTH We were trying to match their physical play. It was getting frustrating. We could never get into the...
BERNIE BUNIAK For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M![]()
Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwrite...
ROBERT KURSON There's more to eggs on a stick than just eggs on a stick.
LEE SOMERSTEIN![]()
We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.
JACK NICHOLS here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity
IKKYU We did not want to get into a position where we had more orders than we could handle.
JACK BUTORAC At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar play...
JAMES IHA Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to t...
JACK HANDY![]()
I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.
JOE PERRY Eliza was very passionate about trying to find ways to make computer science and engineering more ap...
JOSEPH FALL It's almost like they're trying to be provocative -- are they trying to get the bill passed or tryin...
DONNA BERGER Susan digs into how the gamblers were trying to get to the Reds.
GENE CARNEY I've learned a lot about the consistency of being in a championship race, about getting a good finis...
BRANDON DAVIS We were trying to find ways to lengthen the carrot and shorten the stick. We were looking for ways t...
PETER ADLER Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE![]()
Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible a...
LEIGH BARDUGO In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of books...
SARA PARETSKY![]()
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into p...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT![]()
It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid ...
CALVIN JOHNSON![]()
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies m...
PAUL AUSTER I think people who were trying to get into investment properties and trying to flip them won't see t...
BOB MOULTON Gosh, you were so good. Maybe Bill (Clinton) could take a couple of days off, and you could fill in ...
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so...
RICHARD CURTIS![]()
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you ...
KAREN MARIE MONING It's a lot more than that, but ... I don't want to get into it at this time.
ARTHUR BENSON![]()
I saw Whitney break his stick and they had a 2-on-2, but there was a guy going to the net and (Whitn...
SIDNEY CROSBY He's on at 11:30 p.m. He could stick around for a couple more hours. He'd be fun.
JANE CLAYSON![]()
Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. Mo...
CASKIE STINNETT We were trying to get him back on the field. We saw him a little bit Monday and last Friday. He was ...
DON BRADY Here's the problem -- fuel, fuel and fuel. When you're looking at a bill that is $600 million more t...
ED STEWART A bit more good news could push the markets higher but any uncertainty could still shake them out.
HOWARD GORGES To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.
DENICE ENVALL At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At lea...
CRAIG MACTAVISH![]()
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool
COLIN POWELL![]()
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
BEN HECHT![]()
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day...
TUPAC SHAKUR We never gave up. We were trying to get the game down to where we could make a run and get it close.
LOREN STOKES I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more o...
JOE ADAMS We were working with the Railroad Commission to get it done rather than to get a bill passed in the ...
MORRIS BURNS![]()
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the ...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH![]()
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movie...
ZOE KAZAN In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has r...
RICKY SCHRODER Many people will find it more convenient to visit the IRS on a Saturday to get the help they need, r...
CHARLES ROSSOTTI I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get bett...
ELLE FANNING With In Awe, we were trying to capture a feeling more than just a catch phrase.
DEREK LOOMIS To play 75 minutes with 10 men is a huge performance. We were trying to recover and get something fr...
CLAUDE LEROY We were very satisfied that the security was done is such a way that you could get to the data that ...
JOE BURTON![]()
There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
DOROTHY THOMPSON Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff...
STEPHEN DORFF![]()
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew...
STEPHEN KING More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough re...
ALAN ISAACSON This [examining submissions] could go on indefinitely and really doesn't change anything,
FRANK DAVIDOFF I (think) he was trying to find some hint of his childhood. He struggled with the memories. That may...
JOE ELY He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things...
BEN MIKAELSEN![]()
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neuro...
FRANçOIS TRUFFAUT![]()
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE They were shaking this car. It's hard to shake, but the group could have rolled it over.
RUSSELL ANDERSON![]()
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I d...
JOHNNY CASH I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
DAVID FURNISH![]()
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they'r...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.
EVAN PETERS You should get more out of the landfill rather than less. The county could get $1 million over a 5-y...
BARRY ADAMS![]()
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get ...
CHARLES MENGEL ALLEN It's not a slam dunk to get people from Internet banking into bill pay. You have to get people comfo...
BRIAN BLACK Bill King could not get enough of Duke,
RICHARD BRODHEAD![]()
I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't...
DONALD TRUMP just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON![]()
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you c...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG![]()
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON They scored 30 seconds into it and we let that affect us more than it should have. That's going to h...
BRAD STUART You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them...
RAY LIOTTA Small pieces of sponge were cut into floral, leaf and geometric shapes that were then fastened to th...
JUDITH MILLER If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, an...
CHARLES IVES
PROVERB We have absolutely blown the doors off the number of duck callers this year. There's going to be mor...
JACK NUGENT We're trying to encourage shorter, high-quality submissions in addition to the long packages we get.
SIG GISSLER I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.
JASON CHAFFETZ I'm sure he wanted better. But a 73 is nothing to shake a stick at.
DENNIS ERLICH
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ... DON DELILLO
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one... FRANK ZAPPA
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love... FRANK ZAPPA
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were g... BABYFACE My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.
IRENE TOMKINSON Are there different calls that stick with you? ... Hard to shake them off?
JUDITH IVEY One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO He understood. We kept him until the end. There aren't too many times when a non-roster guy gets mor...
JIM HENDRY What I get more than anything [from fans] is you've got to stick it out. He needs you.
JENNIFER MORRISON
Once you agree, then pinky swear and spit-shake that you will both stick to the budget. DAVE RAMSEY The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It'... WILLIAM BOYD
A lot of movies at this festival were struggling to find distributors, ... This film was fortunate e... IVAN REITMAN There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an...
PHILIP M. PARKER People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p...
IAN K. SMITH We threw a few guys at (Lucas) trying to keep fresh legs, and there were a couple of times we tried ...
DAN STOLZ [The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's hel...
WILL DANFORTH We were trying to match their physical play. It was getting frustrating. We could never get into the...
BERNIE BUNIAK For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M
Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwrite... ROBERT KURSON There's more to eggs on a stick than just eggs on a stick.
LEE SOMERSTEIN
We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming. JACK NICHOLS here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity
IKKYU We did not want to get into a position where we had more orders than we could handle.
JACK BUTORAC At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar play...
JAMES IHA Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to t...
JACK HANDY
I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done. JOE PERRY Eliza was very passionate about trying to find ways to make computer science and engineering more ap...
JOSEPH FALL It's almost like they're trying to be provocative -- are they trying to get the bill passed or tryin...
DONNA BERGER Susan digs into how the gamblers were trying to get to the Reds.
GENE CARNEY I've learned a lot about the consistency of being in a championship race, about getting a good finis...
BRANDON DAVIS We were trying to find ways to lengthen the carrot and shorten the stick. We were looking for ways t...
PETER ADLER Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE
Meeting you was a disaster.”She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible a...
LEIGH BARDUGO In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of books...
SARA PARETSKY
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into p... LINDSAY DAVENPORT
It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid ... CALVIN JOHNSON
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies m... PAUL AUSTER I think people who were trying to get into investment properties and trying to flip them won't see t...
BOB MOULTON Gosh, you were so good. Maybe Bill (Clinton) could take a couple of days off, and you could fill in ...
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so...
RICHARD CURTIS
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you ... KAREN MARIE MONING It's a lot more than that, but ... I don't want to get into it at this time.
ARTHUR BENSON
I saw Whitney break his stick and they had a 2-on-2, but there was a guy going to the net and (Whitn... SIDNEY CROSBY He's on at 11:30 p.m. He could stick around for a couple more hours. He'd be fun.
JANE CLAYSON
Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. Mo... CASKIE STINNETT We were trying to get him back on the field. We saw him a little bit Monday and last Friday. He was ...
DON BRADY Here's the problem -- fuel, fuel and fuel. When you're looking at a bill that is $600 million more t...
ED STEWART A bit more good news could push the markets higher but any uncertainty could still shake them out.
HOWARD GORGES To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.
DENICE ENVALL At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At lea...
CRAIG MACTAVISH
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool COLIN POWELL
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. BEN HECHT
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day... TUPAC SHAKUR We never gave up. We were trying to get the game down to where we could make a run and get it close.
LOREN STOKES I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more o...
JOE ADAMS We were working with the Railroad Commission to get it done rather than to get a bill passed in the ...
MORRIS BURNS
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the ... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movie... ZOE KAZAN In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has r...
RICKY SCHRODER Many people will find it more convenient to visit the IRS on a Saturday to get the help they need, r...
CHARLES ROSSOTTI I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get bett...
ELLE FANNING With In Awe, we were trying to capture a feeling more than just a catch phrase.
DEREK LOOMIS To play 75 minutes with 10 men is a huge performance. We were trying to recover and get something fr...
CLAUDE LEROY We were very satisfied that the security was done is such a way that you could get to the data that ...
JOE BURTON
There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment DOROTHY THOMPSON Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff...
STEPHEN DORFF
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew... STEPHEN KING More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough re...
ALAN ISAACSON This [examining submissions] could go on indefinitely and really doesn't change anything,
FRANK DAVIDOFF I (think) he was trying to find some hint of his childhood. He struggled with the memories. That may...
JOE ELY He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things...
BEN MIKAELSEN
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neuro...
FRANçOIS TRUFFAUT
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d... CHRIS LOWE They were shaking this car. It's hard to shake, but the group could have rolled it over.
RUSSELL ANDERSON
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I d... JOHNNY CASH I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
DAVID FURNISH
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they'r... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.
EVAN PETERS You should get more out of the landfill rather than less. The county could get $1 million over a 5-y...
BARRY ADAMS
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,... ELVIS PRESLEY You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get ...
CHARLES MENGEL ALLEN It's not a slam dunk to get people from Internet banking into bill pay. You have to get people comfo...
BRIAN BLACK Bill King could not get enough of Duke,
RICHARD BRODHEAD
I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't... DONALD TRUMP just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you c... JEFFREY KATZENBERG
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... MATT DAMON They scored 30 seconds into it and we let that affect us more than it should have. That's going to h...
BRAD STUART You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them...
RAY LIOTTA Small pieces of sponge were cut into floral, leaf and geometric shapes that were then fastened to th...
JUDITH MILLER If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, an...
CHARLES IVES
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything... 
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone... 
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno... 
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri... 
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. 
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. 
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. 
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. 
Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you. 
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i... 
Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo... 
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e... 
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. 
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&... 
If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an... 
Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing. 
As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f... 
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'... 
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b... 
A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout. 
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are... 
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol... 
People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the... 
I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled. 
I have an addiction to caffeine. 
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to ge... 
Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'... 
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterfli... 