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.

K'naan

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

Oscar Wilde

Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

Bill Plympton

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

Jose Barroso

There has been a caricature of my commission and of me from the very start.

Nicholas Kristof

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

Rory Bremner

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Jeremy Gunn

That is a silly caricature of what is really going on.

Cynthia Hill

You see the media version (of the South), which is often a caricature or cartoon,

Philippe Val

This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.

Mike Easley

Let me be clear: Ophelia is a dangerous storm,

John Varley

Leadership that's reliant on mergers and acquisitions is dangerous leadership.

Jeff Lacy

Scott is a dangerous fighter, ... Everyone has been ducking him.

Bruce Schneier

Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry.

John Cohen

Sean's a very dangerous guy in our league. He's got a great combination of contact-oriented two-strike approach. And he's also got real power at the same time.

Thomas Fuller

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

David Carr

Selling off America's natural heritage is not the way to fund government services. This move would set a dangerous precedent for years to come.

Derek Roy

Maxim is such a dangerous player with the puck, he draws players to him, especially after scoring a goal like that. I look for that, you seem to get a little more space when Maxim has the puck, so it's my job to get to an open spot, because he usually finds a way to get the puck to you. He made a great pass and all I had to do was hit the net.

Scottie Upshall

Me and Nichol will have to keep up with Walks because he's flying ? you can tell he's excited to be back. I think we've got lots of speed and grit. It's an energy line that that can be dangerous if we start to get it going.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Charles Spurgeon

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Democritus

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Edward Abbey

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Earl Nightingale

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Deepak Chopra

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).