Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Margie Dorshorst

Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.

Bill Clinton

Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

Freda Adler

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Peter Clarke

Since July, the pace of investigation, the scale of the threat has not diminished in any way whatsoever.

Kathy Walt

I don't know of a single teacher in Texas who wouldn't welcome the possibility of getting a raise of $10,000, and if the head of a labor union wants to demean and diminish the hard work and the value of teachers, then he or she should be ashamed.

Val McDermid

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

Jack Schwartz

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Carrie Fisher

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Rory Stewart

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Jeremy Corbyn

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Alexander Dubcek

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Peter Ashdown

Sen. Hatch probably spends that much in a week. I am very effective at managing money.

Robert McLaughlin

One of the things that make these lines effective is that they grab your attention.

Stephanie Marquis

No one is really sure why people are being infected. This is usually a very effective vaccine.

Ed Goren

No one has been as effective as quickly as Troy,

Tim Thompson

No one ever wants to see moose hit, but at least now we'll see a more effective method of distributing the meat.

David Levine

Only a limited number of states have laws and regulations in effect to protect borrowers.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

James Brewer

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Dave Barry

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

Dave Barry

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Chris Evans

Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

Timothy Noah

Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Dean Wareham

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.

Edgar Allan Poe

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Ed Murray

My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Idina Menzel

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

Diane McColley

Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Doug Stanhope

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Mattias Norstrom

With the new rules, if you've got the puck with some speed, it's tough for the opposition to stop you.

Adam Weishaupt

Illuminate the opposition.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Gilles Duceppe

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Brian Peterson

We've not run into very much opposition at all. Most people have been very supportive of the project.

Jacob Owiti

The opposition is very stiff but I am optimistic.

Pallam Raju

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

Frank Harris

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We view the Party of Regions as an opposition party.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Forel Davies

If we have a three-day weekend, I'll feel pretty fresh, not smelling of chlorine. Basically, though, I have to be in the pool every day.

Alan Cohen

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool....

Zhu Zhu

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Carl Jung

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Glenn Williams

We'll be a pretty competitive club. But when you're in a pool with the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, it's going to be tough.

Joseph Bernier

The pool is working fine, but it's a 1930s pool,

Tom Penders

He spends more time in the pool than on the court.

Red Herring

People. We wanted to tap the talent pool of researchers who wouldn't relocate to Redmond.

Steve Alford

Pool workouts are great, but it's not running up and down the hardwood 94 feet.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.