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.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Xavier Perkins

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

George Vecsey

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.

Bob Hamilton

So, generally the coaches will go out on the other nine, play four or five holes, then get back to collect the scorecards and do the scoring. It's sort of a perk we enjoy.

Paul Holmgren

Mike is one of the outstanding young coaches in our game today. He's an excellent teacher of the game and has worked successfully with players at all levels of hockey.

Kirk Schmaltz

My field event coaches really do a great job getting those girls ready. My coaches work really hard on their individual events and it's them that really put it together for us.

Mike Gundy

One pass doesn't mean anything. One good option run doesn't mean anything. These coaches have to evaluate all the film.

Jim Kelliher

One of the things most coaches would hope is that you don't make a lot of mental mistakes. In the first half, we really didn't make any. We put some offensive drives together and played fairly decent defensively.

Gerald Griffin

one of the smartest coaches I've been around.

Thomas Dooley

Of course, it is very expensive too. You have to pay the coaches and for the fields and the lights. You have to pay for equipment.

Alexandra Paul

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Isabella Rossellini

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Wayne Barlow

Makes you feel like Elwood out of the movies. Just a dream come true to be able to have this thing, and be able to drive it around and watch people enjoy it.

Christine Anderson

Life ain't more than gameboard spaceWith hoops to jump and dreams to chaseAnd one day fate'll put us all in our placeGoing going goneAnd one day God might come on backWith a summer tan and a CadillacTime, he'll laugh, why I just lost trackWhat else could he really say?

James Blake

Last year, watching this on TV, this is kind of what I was dreaming of, playing a night match at the Open again,

Scott Clark

Many of these volunteers have come on their day off and on their free time to help make these kids dream come true in a day.

Caleb Dolan

So far we have kept the promise. But the dream isn't fully realized until the first group in 2009 heads off to college.

Twiggy

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Lisa Herzlich

On many people, orange is not the most flattering color.

Lydia Leonard

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

Dorothy Hamill

I am thankful for this flattering and great honor.

Annika Sorenstam

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

David Bowie

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

Ted Astolfi

While it's flattering that they should use it, it's well-established.

Danielle Panabaker

I think the important part is picking clothes that are flattering to your figure, and obviously I want a big say in what I was going to wear, 'cause it's still me that's out there.

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Marianne Faithfull

Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

Ellen Davis

Many malls will spend weeks, if not months, to start setting up. Many retailers are just trying to get a head start on the holidays so that when they arrive, they'll have everything decorated and in place.

Michael Cohen

Software really now has to be at the head of the company's strategy so it makes sense to have Jonathan at the role he's in.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Arthur Jackson

One side of her head and neck was burnt. Everything was raw.

Goran Persson

One might say that after 33 years as head of state this should have been done before, but it should be painted when one is the middle of one's life, so here we are.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Lucia Shook

Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.

Ted Stevens

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

John Prescott

Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Gia Coppola

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Mark Richt

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

Alan Culpepper

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.

Pete Egan

So fouls were a real problem for us, obviously.

Barbara Johnson

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

Dennis Weaver

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Denis Healey

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Dean Kamen

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.