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.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

David Buck

Lean manufacturing is at the core of our strategy to support our growth. You have to take waste out of everything. We only want to do things that our customers are willing to pay for.

Christian Coughlin

Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh daily. Our lasagna is made fresh every day. We take great pride in making everything fresh.

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Renee James

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

Tina Brown

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

Larry Eustachy

I feel real positive about things. We've got a core of players that we feel good about, and (we said) come Wednesday, we would sign some other very good players.

Drew Matus

Growth is strong. Inflation is making them a little nervous, even though they reiterate that core inflation and long-term inflation expectations are contained.

Wilf Gobert

Given that it's the deepest well ever drilled, you might describe it as a new frontier, except the frontier isn't farther out geographically; it's farther down toward the core of the earth.

Lloyd McClendon

From a manager's standpoint, losses are never easy to swallow. You take them to heart. You take them real hard, ... But am I keeping my eye on the big picture? Of course I am. And do I know that we have a core group that has the potential to be good from the start of next season to the end of next season? Of course I do. And that's exciting." ()

Annika Sorenstam

Luckily I had a little cushion, and at the end it seemed like I needed it, ... For me, a win is a win. I thought I played excellent the first two days. It's a tough golf course and a lot of things are shaping up for the end of year. So this meant a lot to me.

David Hilal

Let's not ignore the fundamental course of business.

Brian Henson

Lew Grade told my dad, I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be a big hit,' ... The show had definitely not run its course when my dad decided to end the show. My dad just liked doing a lot of stuff. He was so full of stuff he wanted to do.

Salvador Carranza

Many of the issues are very sensitive of course for the people. They generally don't want to talk about them a lot because of the confidentiality.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used and is still using in the course of my life journey.

Barry Scheck

Miss Woodward has always taken the course that would vindicate her and prove her innocent.

Mark McCutchen

Mr. Eaton either doesn't know what he's talking about, he's being deceptive, or a combination of both. Of course Clarksville could have hedged last spring for this past winter, that's the way we do business." ()

Roberto Azevedo

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

John Reid

My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Daniel Butler

Newness drives sales. Today there is more newness in the market than in the last five years. There is a faster turn in trends driven by the industry.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Cynthia Ozick

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Randy Olson

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

Laura Innes

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Kate Klise

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

Don Shelby

One of the problems with modern journalism is that it is not driven by news so much as it is by story elements.

Mike Shanahan

You never know with those ankles, we'll just have to wait and see. I don't think it's that serious where he would have to get (a magnetic resonance imaging test).

Don Brownlee

The imaging was a bonus, but boy, what a bonus.

Kylie Jenner

Makeup looks better if your skin is not dry. And sometimes, if my skin peels, then it's all just bad. Basically, take care of your skin to make your makeup look nice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up,

Jay Frye

Looks like they (Notre Dame) will offer both.

Robert Prince

Looks like the truck was stuck in the snow.

David Williams

Looks like somebody had a wrestling match in them.

Jane Moore

Looks like he's going to have to settle for just being the stupidest.

Paul McCurtain

Looks like everything occurred on the scene at the house." ()

Brian Williams

Look on the left. There's something that looks like a bulldozer.

Neel Mehta

Security software is usually the first inline that looks at incoming data.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Neil Craig

Let's just wait - there's been a lot a paranoia that may not be justified.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Lynne Ambrosini

Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Bill Gates

No one should underestimate the PC and what a valuable tool it has become,

Bill Gates

The PC and the Xbox are very complementary,

Ben Carson

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Gabriel Lowy

H-P is probably quite worried, not just about PCs and servers but what Dell will do in printers, particularly in cartridges.

Phil Schiller

I think there are a lot of PCs that should be recycled.

Carly Fiorina

It doesn't make sense to get out of that business. It's an important part of the solutions bundle. But don't think we didn't look at it (getting out of PC sales) carefully. We did.

Diane Siri

PCS has been a unique school from the very beginning.

Brian Krzanich

I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Brian Krzanich

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

Chris Perry

They need to start printing the called-back plays, ... taking those into consideration or something.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Sebastian Pinera

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

Noam Chomsky

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

George Osborne

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

John Quincy Adams

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Mike Sullivan

One of the strengths of our team is our versatility,

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot.

Elbert Hubbard

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Elbert Hubbard

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.