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.

Dawn Anderson

Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.

Albert Camus

Life is a sum of all your choices.

Nicolle Devenish

make it clear he's now energized and ready to talk about the choice people have next November.

Chris Simpson

Mainly they'll talk about with them the importance of education the importance of the choices they make,

George Bernard Shaw

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Bill Young

Let there be no doubt, our choice -- the choice of President Bush, the choice of the United States Congress, and the choice of the great people of a great nation -- is to fight back. The world will be impressed by our response and we mobilize for this fight.

Wim Kok

Let's be realistic. The voters gave us a huge thrashing. The people of the Netherlands have made a different choice.

Jack Lamb

Many parents, you could offer all types of choices, and they're going to choose what is most convenient.

Luis Derbez

Severing diplomatic relations is an extreme choice and the Mexican government does not intend to do so for now,

Drew Altman

Seniors still are having a hard time. Seniors still aren't really prepared, and they're going to need a lot of help to make the choices they need to make under the law.

Maajid Nawaz

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

Donna Moir

My hat's off to Mercy. They were on fire in the first half. We didn't get tired in the fourth quarter. We made some poor choices that ended up costing us.

Willie Randolph

Obviously, if you play games like that with the fans, they can come down harder on you. We all have choices to make and reactions to different things.

Charles Petzold

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Edward Abbey

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Earl Nightingale

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Jodie Bernstein

Miracle cures, once thought to be laughed out of existence, have found a new medium. Consumers now spend millions on unproven, deceptively marketed products on the Web.

Steve Schneider

Moving to a file-and-use system of rate regulation puts South Dakota in the mainstream of states and consumers will continue to enjoy the same strong protections they did before.

Anita Elberse

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

Bill Evans

Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable.

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Koji Endo

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Tina Lange

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was substantial.

Sen. Bray

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Robert Steidl

Nestlings probably suffered the highest energetic costs from disturbances because of their dependence on adults for food.

Pat Burns

One incentive is that energy costs are pretty low up here.

Scott Matthews

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

Tim Jackson

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

Dave Messing

Mainly, we have to look at the demand in the marketplace and have the right number of seats to meet that.

David Brainerd

Madison Marquette is expanding Festival at Waldorf to meet the community's increasing demand for high quality retail destinations.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Soichiro Monji

Lenders can make plenty of money as long as there is demand for loans. That's what we are starting to see. Real estate developers are also benefiting as demand increases.

Tracy Mullin

Many retailers are expecting high demand for toys and are recommending that people shop early,

Jerry Starkey

Many communities are refocusing growth back on the urban center. Land is scarce in these locations. High demand drives the price of land through the roof. To be affordable, it forces housing to go vertical. You have a need for 10-, 20- and 30-story high-rises.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Share prices for property stocks are high and it's getting difficult to push them higher. Semiconductor demand is picking up and Japanese chip-related companies, as global players, will benefit.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Hidenori Karaki

Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Teijin.

Robert Sellar

More of the same nightmare scenario of fewer orders and fewer sales, but no different to other sectors,

Linda Nelson

Morale is at an all-time low. Fewer young people are going into teaching.

Guillermo Cole

Naturally, with fewer people, we can't follow up as effectively as we'd like to.

Jason Chaffetz

If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Ray Mabus

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Gregg Mastoras

If they were able to target her, it would probably take even fewer steps to get information from random people.

Teju Cole

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Tom Golisano

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

Robert Osborne

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Michael Williams

Last year, registration filled up in 12 to 17 minutes. In 2003, it took three weeks.

Tom Rathbun

Mountain streams and rivers that were orange when I was a kid are now filled with fish, are now lined with trees and rhododendrons, and that's progress.

David Eagleman

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Beth McNamara

One of our goalies is out sick and our other goalie Jordan McCormack was filling in and she did a great job.

Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Warren Stute

My horse didn't start off too great, but he's improving finally. He was immature a little bit, but he's starting to fill out.

Tiffany Hernandez

Now that Justine's leaving, someone has to fill her spot as the universal swimmer. She's good at everything, so I'm hoping that I will be the one.

Derek Allen

Obviously, Nate is important and we'll see what happens there, but we think people will fill the spaces and we will get through it. We have a lot to improve on after a 35-0 win.

Judy McNamara

Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

Daniel Boulud

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Mary Bush

Many households have two working spouses, so there are time pressures that influence food purchases.

Simon Pluess

Many people have lost all their food stocks and stoves in the quake ... and they need ready-to-eat food.

Nancy Cartwright

Mud is not one of the 4 food groups

Rig Veda

May all the food I partake be pure.

Peter Baker

Men still have this tendency to see food as being like fuel. It's there to serve a purpose.

Rebecca Stead

My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.

Jason Wu

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

Alexandra Paul

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Dieter Zetsche

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Tad Hutcheson

The price of fuel has just gotten out of hand.

Gerald Grinstein

If we had fuel at the price it was three years ago, we would have had probably record operating profits in the first and second quarters of the year. That's how much fuel has impacted Delta.

Micky Arison

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

John Benson

Mr Blunkett has also always said he is proud of his working-class background, so we hope that has not been drummed out of him by New Labour and he can find a way of helping working-class people.

Gary Jacobson

One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.

Tom Amstutz

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Scott Reamer

The question is, what incentives and what discounts have they needed to provide to get to that number and indeed just what is their operational efficiency?

Jennifer Granholm

We need incentives for reinvestment in the transmission grid,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Carlos Slim

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

David Bryant

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Andrew Lincoln

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

Robert Reich

Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

No president is informed if some plane lands,

Benon Sevan

Similarly, I informed the U.S. government, effectively the policeman for sanctions violations in the Gulf, of maritime smuggling on a massive scale that was occurring, to no avail.

Marty Hurney

We don't know anything about it because we really have not been informed throughout the legal process.

Pamela Moore

We feel that we need to listen to our constituents and make an informed decision.

Aaron Sorkin

The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

Bret Bielema

He informed me he might be interested in pursuing another option with LSU. I said that's all I needed to know because I want people that need to be here.

James Perry

James would have needed about two months to prepare. It is a specialist item. He was informed too late.

William Ryan

I represent the legislature. When I go to the vote, I try to represent the majority view, but I can't make an informed vote until the issue is discussed.

Jacci Jahnke

When we table a subject, we're not using it as a tool to make it go away. It's a tool we use to make more informed decisions.

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Madeline Albright

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Debbie Horne

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Jacob Frenkel

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Bill Cowher

We're proud of the teams of the 1970s. But we have our own niche right now.

Dusty Springfield

It got very well reviewed, ... I don't think it ever sold that much, but it seems to have settled into this niche of respect, which I find very touching.

Amy Froess

We've been playing teams that are taller than us all the time, and we've been winning. We just have to find our niche and get some confidence. If their shooters aren't on from the outside, then I think we have a chance.

Kermit Baker

Firms really niche themselves on a thin slice of remodeling activity.

Peter Bart

There could be no replacement for Army, and no one will replace him, ... His niche and talents are very special.

Sandy Goldstein

We realized there was a real niche out there.

Larry Beets

They all have their little niche in it that we want them to be thinking about.

Ellen Goldstein

There is tremendous competition. Unless you find a niche it is really going to be an uphill climb.

Michael Sylvester

This is really an economy-of-scale question. This is a niche market.

Steny Hoyer

What they have proposed will not offset Katrina. It will offset their tax cuts,

Paul Ballew

It varies by category, but it's a significant offset in many cases.

Alexandra Paul

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Constance Marie

If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.

Ciara

I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.

Fabio Barbosa

Our vision is that we have to search for organic growth.

Courtney Taylor

Our whole sound is too organic and warm. I'd be very surprised if we had a big hit.

Donna Nelson

I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.

John Harrison

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Robert Patterson

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

Patrick Holden

The words organic and sustainable agriculture are the same thing; they are synonymous.

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Wyclef Jean

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

Chris Carter

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Dino De Laurentiis

If no producer, no movie.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.