Quotes About Author

Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

Everyone is impressed by Modi-ji's leadership. Many big leaders want to work with him. Similarly, as an activist, I want to join the party.

David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.

I started my career at LVMH and then I joined Phillips de Pury under the tutelage of Simon de Pury as second auctioneer and head of marketing.

A great friend and mentor, Simon de Pury, invited me to be auctioneer at Phillips de Pury, which was a great honor.

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.

I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

'Simon' was such a charmed experience.

I always make this comparison between Bob Dylan and David Simon. Not in the most flattering way possible - these two intellectual Jews who totally identify with the black man's struggle!

Simon has always said we're a chat show pretending to be a music show.

Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.

I am from Des Moines, Iowa - not even the city but out in the country. I don't have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I'm just a simple person with a silly bone.

I'm a normal lad. I've always been quite humble, and I like simple things.

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.