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aspiring literary
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. Tina Brown
aspiring giving high keeping matter players training
We set high standards. In training every day we are on at the players and we keep working at things and giving them targets. But they are all aspiring to do better so it is just a matter of keeping them hungry. Ken McKenna
aspiring divert enormous people prey publishing
There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
aspiring draw felt oldies
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
aspiring cell finds
'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her. AnnaLynne McCord
aspiring bases boost both competition depth doubt elite expand great level major north planned players potential programs provide regions rugby tournament
There is little doubt that the planned development programs will be a major boost for rugby on the North American continent, which has great potential for growth. This tournament will provide a new level of competition for aspiring elite players in the regions and will expand the depth of the player bases in both unions. Mark Egan
aspiring dreams people represents share specific standards york
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Walter Kirn
aspiring based dependency determine dictates either elections freedom government improving mandates trajectory
I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government. George Allen
aspiring bring community created excited fold fulfilling game learn major minnesota models people players positive promise role soccer step thunder top
We're excited to have Manny back in the Thunder fold and have created opportunities for aspiring soccer players to learn the game from one of the top players, professionals, and positive role models to have come out of Minnesota. We have made a promise to the soccer community to bring the Minnesota soccer people back to the Thunder; this is another major step in fulfilling that promise.
authors believe business customer helpful publishers revenue service stream time turn
We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers, Jeff Bezos
authors drawers gets
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. Nigel Barker
authors capturing caught clearly few generation imagination manage selling
Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.
authors few manage selling
Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,
authors female heroines inch male taller
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. Lee Child
authors everybody famous
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' Robert M. Pirsig
authors champion diverse forms graphic novels verse works writers
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. Malorie Blackman
authors bound club easy fast grew influences people
It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. Ashwin Sanghi
authors maybe might send variation
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.' Laurie Halse Anderson
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
change begets
Change begets change.
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new. Alan Watts
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
change vices computer
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Alan Perlis
conceived destroy factor poorly possible risk stays tree whether
Whether the tree stays or goes, there's a risk factor that he will destroy what he's built. It's just a poorly conceived idea from every possible angle.
conceived distant prospect seemed
When we conceived the Mir, we didn't think much about its end, the prospect seemed so distant and we had many other things to do,
conceived deal difference great longer republic seeds takes
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
conceive practice tangled weave web
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive Don Herold
conceived originally simon tv
Simon had originally conceived 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' as a TV show not as a movie. Doug Liman
conceived initial innovation people range separate start understanding widespread
The real innovation comes when it is widespread enough that a whole range of people start to use it for things that were never conceived of. I would separate the initial technological development from the innovation that arrives from a better understanding of it.
conceived conductor create effect energy instrument mechanical movements moves music orchestra plays sound using
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
conceived films funny intention mine people quite respond
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. Michael Haneke
conceived felt life
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. Venerable Bede
create family force great period rehearsal shoot time wonderful
What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it. Lisa Jakub
created creates federal government job people project work
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. Michael Steele
created general government inspector position
The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.
create people protect
the people who create it want the most to protect it. John Brown
create elementary industrial school tucked
We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.
created defense floor greatest man played press switch
We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.
creates offense running spread
We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.
create wherever
Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest. Omar Vizquel
create davis expect point raiders walk
When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do. Art Shell
creating united-states lawyer
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers. Akio Morita
creating people special
When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing. David Selby
creating imagination digital
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. Buffy Sainte-Marie
creating style example
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. Camille Paglia
creating hoping launching learnt message turn
We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.
creating energy game games industry point sequels touch video
We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.
creating defensive shut slow
We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.
creating ghost impression news reported scientific widespread
Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research. Heinrich Rohrer
creating trying rewards
We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly. Charles Koch
digital exactly found great mark photograph technology
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it. Louise Leakey
digital chance welcome
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance. Bernardo Bertolucci
digital early increase pace phone sales seen third
We have seen an increase in the pace of digital phone sales during the early part of the third quarter. Jim Shaw
digital group handle matter process specialist transition
We're in the process of transition as an industry, so there's still?a need for a specialist group to handle digital media. It's a matter of maturity. David Cohen
digital last magazines year
Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half. Christie Hefner
digital last magazines year
Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.
digital print coexist
Print and digital comics will always coexist. Brian K. Vaughan
digital cameras reminiscing
I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately. Demetri Martin
digital great published trying useful works
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library. Brewster Kahle
doors hands names
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
doors years missionary
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. Charles Studd
doors choices discouragement
(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life. Charles Stanley
doors luck once-in-a-lifetime
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
doors nudists bathroom
I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends. Alanis Morissette
doors dc-comics forever
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker Alan Moore
doors proud next
I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. Al Jarreau
doors chloe curse-words
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. Chloe Grace Moretz
doors color different
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe
drives human
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. Lynsey Addario
drives home labor market period point rates unchanged worried
The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time. David Jones
driven panic rebound signal strong today yesterday
The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.
driver economic war
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. Neil deGrasse Tyson
drive exam pull stops windows
We've actually had to pull out the stops and have supervisors working the windows and pull in everyone who can give a drive exam and try to accommodate them.
driver exactly identify looking piece together
We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.
drive higher motivation move stocks
Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there was no real motivation to move things higher or lower.
drive drove hit took
When you took away the 3 they drove right by you and you took away the drive they hit the 3.
drive friendship people time
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other. Martin Freeman
leverage microsoft
What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.
leverage
We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.
leverage stop
We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.
leverage strong stronger
He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.
leverage opportunity video
They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.
leverage models operating remain starting time
What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,
leverage
It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good. Michael Myers
leverage plans room
There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.
leverage tender
AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.
opening-up people bigs
I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people. Bill Richardson
opening-up doors trying
When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment. Ed Helms
opening party
We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.
opening seem
(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange. Robert Niro
opening selling tickets
We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.
opening personnel sort year
With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago. Dave Wannstedt
opening-up space littles
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth. Bridget Riley
opening knows our-lives
There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing. Jane Hirshfield
opening success
I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
program explaining ifs
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
program
The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. David Kay
program programming ifs
If we can't program it, we can't understand it. David Deutsch
program understood ifs
If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
program six students
We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.
program save sooner
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. Nathan Myhrvold
program advantage admission
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. Derek Bok
program social social-programs
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. Charles Evers
program support turn
We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.
publishing
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now. Nick Earls
publishing-house assistants firsts
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. Anna Chlumsky
publishing
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. Daniel Berrigan
publishing-house self ideas
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening. Chuck Palahniuk
publishing retailing stay top worried
They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.
publishing serious sorts vices
These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.
publishing signed steps taken
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. J. Tillman
publishing
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
publishing
I don't think there's any such thing as a coincidence in publishing anymore.
recognizes trying weaker
She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.
recognizes
The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me. Lauren Lee Smith
recognizes stopped
I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!' Domhnall Gleeson
recognizes
He's not doing this for credit. He's doing this because he recognizes the need.
sea house theatre
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
sea highways
That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape
sea suffering needs
Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.
sea world wave
You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.
sea play gulls
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx. Al Pacino
sea land pirate
But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots) Dave Barry
sea fishing rivers
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
sea environmental rising
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming. David Suzuki
sea world needs
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in. David R. Brower
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
technology civilization goal
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
technology fit lifestyle
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles. Alan Mulally
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. Alan Parker
technology fields needs
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
xerox
Entire families work for Xerox. Anne M. Mulcahy