Treno Quotes & Sayings

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. — Terry Brooks

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else. — Geena Davis

Writing is learned by imitation. I learned to write mainly by reading writers who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and by trying to figure out how they did it. S. J. Perelman told me that when he was starting out he could have been arrested for imitating Ring Lardner. Woody Allen could have been arrested for imitating S. J. Perelman. And who hasn't tried to imitate Woody Allen? Students often feel guilty about modeling their writing on someone else's writing. They think it's unethical - which is commendable. Or they're afraid they'll lose their own identity. The point, however, is that we eventually move beyond our models; we take what we need and then we shed those skins and become who we are supposed to become. But — William Zinsser

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time. — Mickey Mantle

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right. — Stuart Townsend

You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your
two choices. — Tanya Masse

And I'd have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell. — Sarah Scheele

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt

On the freeway of life, Lisa Watson was stuck at the entrance ramp, trapped behind a cautious old lady in a Buick. — Judy Nichols

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel. — Benjamin Netanyahu

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though. — Jeremy Lin

I'll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We're talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he'd heard it. — Ian Tregillis