Page Quotations

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven't read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn't meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.

With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.

Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.

There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

I remember a picture on the front page of the 'Sun' during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: 'The Future of Britain.' And I thought: 'Wow! Look at the power of that image,' and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional.

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

I would anticipate that within the next week, as an act of desperation as he fights for political relevancy, Gray will pull out a page from his old play book and go negative against Arnold. Gray Davis is going throw everything against the wall he can and see what sticks.

I wish there was a better way to make the front page of USA Today than to have my house blown down, ... I was hoping it would be on passing health care for reservists or something.

NIMS is not yet online nationwide, but by adopting this it is a step to put everybody on the same page and working with the same process to hopefully save lives and property damage.

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Oddly enough, there hasn't been a lot of commentary one way or the other about Barry among us. I don't know if that means the guys are indifferent or just tired of it all. In general, I just think everyone is going to be very relieved when the page is turned.

Obviously, you're always wishing you could go out and sign a Reggie White, but those players don't make it to free agency anymore, ... So you kind of do what you can and outside of that you work hard and get everybody on the same page with the defensive coordinator. And hope it all works.

People who aren't even celebrities are celebrities because of page 3.

Now the choice has finally been made, you've put the story on the front page and produced the sort of collection of special reports that usually accompanies a major news event, not the announcement of the casting of one tired old film role.

Now that I'm playing middle linebacker, I have a better idea of what's going on around me. I'm more on the same page with everybody. I felt comfortable outside also, but I'd rather be in the middle. I feel like I can make more plays.

Obviously if they're sending people out of Louisiana, I don't know why we would be going in, ... Our president (John Peterson) will not allow that to happen, I'm sure the conference office will be on the same page and (Athletic Director) Mike Hamilton is certainly on the same page.

Obviously, they've offered an olive branch. I think we made some inroads this time and I think several years down the road there might be a time when there's a comfort level. The one thing we are on the same page on is the integrity of the game.

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life.

Netscape won't do some things that Internet Explorer will do, ... But then, IE 7 is sort of a step back, so you just really need to view a page on more than one browser before you approve it.

I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs.

I got more money in that stuff than I had in my first race car, a '56 Ford. John Page gave me a senior citizen's discount because he said you don't see many old timers buying this kind of gear anymore.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

I didn't get the job because I look like a lion. I got the job because I can read the words on the page and say them out loud.

If they send someone $55 for a recorded instrument that they can get for $1 a page plus $1.50 for a certified copy, that's an awful lot of money to spend. They should be wary of paying that much money.

If they put it on the front page with a link and a picture, people will get what is going on. They will just be surprised that Amazon is doing it.

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

There are only a couple times I've had to remind him to move up a little bit or something. Me and him are on the same page a lot.

We're constantly watching it on a daily, hourly -- we're watching it by the minute. It's not just by chance you end up on the top of the page rankings. I don't know anybody who's gotten there just by chance. They've got to have a good content page, and they've got to know what the search engines are looking for.

We're continuing to evaluate those. If any violations are identified as a result of those inspections, they would be reflected when the performance indicator/inspection findings web page for the plant is updated quarterly. They would also be included in the 2006 annual assessment letter for the plant, which would be issued next March. Any non-'green' findings would result in additional inspections for the plant.

Mr. Page is the real story of this season. The way he carries himself, the way he inspires people. He may not always see us, but we all see him.

Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.

My job is to move the chains. If a guy doesn't understand that, he has to get on the same page as me. The good thing here is everyone understands that.

Most other companies in this space use a basic Web server model where you bring up a Web page and it simply refreshes to reflect a change in status. From a software standpoint, that's slower and much less graceful than using Web Services.

Since we are a very image-intensive delivery mechanism, Linux will be the platform of choice for serving up all those images. We believe we have enough capacity to meet the industry standard of eight seconds of delivery time up to around 30 million page views per day.

Most taxpayers will be able to file on one page and pay at one rate.

She (India) is an incredible talent. India is a complete player. She is a tremendous athlete with a lot of pace. She is very skillful as well. We can read each other really well. She knows exactly what I am going to do and what ball I am expecting. Sometimes I don't even see her but I know where she is going to be making her runs and where she is going. There is a good understanding there that usually takes time to develop. We got on the same page quickly. It is awesome playing with her.

Many residents along the Highway 50 corridor travel to those areas for restaurants, shopping and other entertainment options, so we felt it would be valuable to include the necessary white page information for them.

So far, the people have been great and it's been very enjoyable. I've got a good coaching staff, everybody's on the same page and that makes a big difference.

She's on every page of the script, so the actress had to be strong and incredible. She displayed such a depth of understanding about the character that I knew we had the right kid.

I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.

I wrote the first page the day my partner died, ... I had to get some stuff down. I was really trying to handle the grief.

He is very humble. I did mention to him earlier that I saw his 200-page media guide and he's on page 84. It's all about Ohio State, it's all about his players and the academic service center. I told him I respected that.

I found myself refreshing a page literally to see if the classes were available. It just seemed such a mechanical process that it made sense to make a program for it.

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

I did not hurt anybody and my page is clean. So I am not anxious about the trial.

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it, ... That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times. I build a book the way coral reefs are formed, on all these little dead bodies of marine polyps, you know?

Getting those two guys on the same page will be a major factor on us having a good season,'' Cheeks said.

I feel like we sold ourselves a wonderful future. This is just the beginning of a new page in and around the western edge of the panhandle. I think we will get the Joint Strike Fighter.

I get page after page of negative balances. The most common mistake I have found is that someone receives parts at the back door and takes them to the shop floor without ever doing the computer transaction.

I don't think she cared too much for the track, either. We'll just turn the page and move on, and if everything goes all right over the next few weeks we'll stick with our original plan to go to the Ashland and then the Oaks.

CBS, in their infinite wisdom, has put me back on the front page of the news. It was a brilliant move on their part. Everyone had just about forgotten about me, and now here I am back again.

But great individual talent isn't what wins games in the NBA. The guys have to all be on the same page to win. I'm not sure they had that last season.

I'm at a loss. I don't know where this is coming from. . . . Our goal is to take leadership from them. For us to be on a different page than they are - we wouldn't want that.

Having Jason back there helps me out because we're thinking more on the same page than having other guys behind the plate that don't know your stuff.

Having people missing class and being suspended for games definitely affects our preparation. I don't think it's going to be hard to turn it around. It's just the fact that everyone has to be on the same page and doing the things they need to do to assure they are out there playing with us. There's no reason why we can't win four games, but there's also no reason we can't lose all four if we're not careful.

We are fully committed to carry out all our obligations emanating from this report, providing that we implement honestly and without any games -- the full report, page to page, without being selective.

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We're on a page now where we want to be the top team in the nation. We want to win a national championship.