Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Malorie Blackman

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.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Chuck Smith

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Tim LaHaye

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Andy Richter

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Erica Jong

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Anthony Marra

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Margi Nanney

Now, they say, 'No, because you're going to sell the camp.'

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

John Roberts

If they want to sell and get out, if they have enough land, it's OK, they can downsize and do that.

Ed McIntosh

If this situation isn't fixed, they won't be able to sell their house.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Rasheed Wallace

I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Tristram Stuart

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.

Stephen Potter

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

Kristin Cast

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Al Groh

(Monroe) wants to be coached. He wants to be very good.

Peter Enrich

No one wants to be the one, as they put it, to unilaterally disarm.

Carolyn See

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.