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.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Jeanne Miller

Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without her.

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Liu Xiaoming

Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.

Stephanie Stilson

Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?

Rudi Giuliani

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Chris Paulitz

Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.

Joseph Rykwert

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

John Mulvihill

One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

Rob Wheeler

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Stephen Davis

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mabel Illidge

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Granth Sahib

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

Oliver Cromwell

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it

Archer John Porter Martin

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Farooq Kathwari

I had one in my office for a year and tested them in some friends' houses to make sure it worked.

Susan Lyne

She has lived in many homes. She has made houses and a lifestyle her life's work.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Luke Evans

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Peter Jackson

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

Mitt Romney

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

Yadira Gomez

We didn't really think we were going to win. We went around to look at the other houses and there were pretty nice houses out there.

Suriyasai Katasila

The regime has turned parliament into the houses of relatives.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bertrand Delanoe

More than ever, housing must be a national priority,

James Sullivan

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Dean Baker

I wouldn't necessarily predict this would be a trigger, but I wouldn't rule it out either. It wouldn't surprise me if you see money leaving the secondary mortgage market, leading housing prices to fall.

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Nthatisi Modingoane

The project is aimed at alleviating the housing problems of the surrounding suburbs as well as the Kathrada Park informal settlement, but in a systematic and orderly manner.

Ben Gunn

The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.

Larry Wachtel

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we get numbers on industrial production and housing and big reports from Intel, Coke, Johnson & Johnson -- maybe that can turn us around.

James McIntyre

Travel trailers were always meant to be interim housing until we can get more permanent solutions.

Bible Bible

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Mark Ritchie

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

George Grace

One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Tony Smith

Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Steve Black

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

David Bowie

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Cameron Crowe

She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.

Bernard Williams

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Attallah Zeidan

We still need time to mature politically. It will take time.

Bram Cohen

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

Jack Agostino

He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.

Keith Guttin

He has a very mature approach. He's not loud, but he's competitive. Very competitive.

Sven Eriksson

He has suddenly become a mature player, which he may not have been before. He did what no one else could do (on the pitch), but he did it a little too often.

Mark Fox

Nick has matured and been able to make other people better.

Eric Draper

We should let the ranch be economically sustainable but also ecologically sustainable.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Rosalynn Carter

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Gary Hart

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'