Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Charlie Munger

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Jose Ferreira

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Tracey Schmitt

newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign.

Dan Harmon

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Calista Flockhart

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Richard Bove

This event highlights, once again, the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions.

David Spear

So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.

Walter Miller

We want them to see exactly the way we do it in Nashville ? there's no reason to change.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

Dave Barry

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Charles Spurgeon

Giving is true loving.

Alan Bleasdale

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Mary Simmons

We are pleased the proposed generate rate increase will be considerably less than we originally expected.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Lenilson Guedes

That's one of the mysteries we have to solve.

Donald Kennedy

As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Elia Kazan

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Ally Carter

Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. "How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.

Edward Snowden

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Daniel Craig

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Alison Bechdel

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

Helen Mirren

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

Christopher Lee

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.