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.

David Miller

Library values are like real estate in Southern California - they generally go up every year.

Arturo Gonzalez

Many students in California have not been given a fair opportunity to learn the material on the exam.

Gray Davis

My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,

Robert McCullough

One of our jobs is to keep an eye on California in case it gets too utterly bizarre. A glitch in California raises (electricity) prices from Alberta to West Texas." ()

Vitor Meira

My goal coming into this season was to win my first race and I still haven't accomplished that, ... Our cars will be good at California and it would be a great way to finish the season with a victory. I think we'll be in the hunt right to the end.

Brian Wilson

Now, they can at least know that in the California market, something will be in place for 10 years.

Glenn Miller

Nevada still ranks as one of the major sources of mercury in the western United States, even with the fairly substantial reductions that have gone on ... probably the third largest state. I think we just went under California. Texas and California are the No. 1 and 2 states. But we're No. 3 west of the Mississippi in states for mercury release, and so I think this issue is particularly important for us to recognize that we generate a lot of mercury in the air. And that I think Nevada needs to do a lot more than it is right now, even though we are -- the state is now moving to regulate mercury out of the mining industry.

Sean Gallagher

Natural gas is traded on a national market. The utilities here in California don't have any control over the price of gas.

Johnny Rivers

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

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.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Terry Holt

Mr. Armey and Mr. Lott are longtime friends and allies, and they will always work hard together on the issues facing Congress,

Adam Sampson

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.

Richie Adubato

Now we're facing a four-game road trip. We have to steal one very shortly.

Dave Duncan

From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sinclair

I work for lots of fire protection districts. With some exceptions, everyone is facing the same problem.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships.

Lisa Rickard

Obesity is a very serious problem. It's not going to be solved in the courtroom.

Gelett Burgess

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Morgan Spurlock

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Ogden Nash

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Mary Austin

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

Tom Vilsack

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Lewis Mumford

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.