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.

J. A. Konrath

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

Seth Godin

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.

Carine Roitfeld

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

Bill Keller

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Nicola Formichetti

Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

Tao Okamoto

I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

Jason Calacanis

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

Mark Edwards

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Dean Koontz

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.

Christopher Darden

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Lennart Nilsson

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Stephenie Meyer

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

A. Scott Berg

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

David Brock

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Michael Winter

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

Ruth Miller

This started as a grass-roots effort, and we need to sustain that and have it filter down to kids in school.

William Kraft

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

Dennis Crowley

People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

Larry Farmer

I think when you have a guy back there that is 6-10, it's easier, because you have that knowledge that you can just filter stuff in to him. You don't have to have guards rotate over, and try to take charges, and Sean's tall enough that he doesn't have to foul you. You also don't have to get out and try to press teams and turn them over.

Douglas Ward

I am convinced, ... that if we get larger and larger ships in the industry, it will actually filter off a lot of passengers into the niche market ships of 100 to 200 passengers in the years to come.

George Karl

I will talk to him and see what's happening. He told me and the staff at halftime that he couldn't go. Now, there's stuff filtering out that there's frustration there. We'll see.

Donna Hughes

I don't think it's going to do anything to protect kids. It's not going to make filters work any better.

Dale Brown

It always filters down to the purchasers of goods, food products and construction products,

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Scot Roskelley

I had one or two unpleasant occurrences. I don't need to get any more graphic than that.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

Aisha Tyler

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Paula Otto

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

Thomas Sokolowski

He was the most sought-after graphic illustrator in New York City. He was making $150,000 a year, which is like a half-million now.

Marissa Moss

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Dave Kinney

The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They're real avionics.

George H. W. Bush

Lynne is an incredibly important member of this team.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

J. A. Konrath

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

Tony Kushner

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Pete Peterson

I would characterize the meeting as very cordial, very comfortable, ... It (the exchange) was rather free-wheeling, without reading from notes. It was incredibly comfortable.

Douglas Coupland

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

James Marsh

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Chris Cornell

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Diane Ravitch

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Dennis Prager

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Denis Kearney

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Denis Diderot

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Ridley Scott

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Nicole Sullivan

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

William Scott

We rely on each other to get through.

Lynn Schusterman

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Ryan Giggs

We can't just rely on Wayne and Ruud.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

Chief Seattle

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Bryant H. McGill

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

Alexandra Paul

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Alexandra Adornetto

What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

Albert Schweitzer

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

David Houghton

Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.

Jerry Butler

McNabb has always been nonchalant about everything; thinking things will just go away, but things just don't go away,

Jerry Glanville

When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls.

Chris Elliott

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Hannah More

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Alexandra Fuller

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Jimmy Rollins

I got things to do. I'm not going to watch baseball, I play it.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Mark Schmidt

Oh, yeah, I'll watch it when we get back to school. We don't stop.

Linda Thompson

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.