Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Holly Brown

We're not counting ourselves out. We're right there.

John Lowery

We're not counting on them as saviors or anything else like that,

Phil Garner

We're not counting him out, but this is a day-to-day situation,

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Larry Nierenberg

Let me get you the hydrologist, he's much more familiar with tropical systems than I am.

Gene Luen Yang

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

Pat Buchanan

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have nowhere else to go.' Well, guess what? We have somewhere else to go. At long last, we have a home of our own,

Susan Morrison

Found sounds are sounds like pots and pans, rice in milk jugs - things you can come up with to make music around the house with familiar objects.

David Nicholls

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Amber Daulbaugh

We made a lot of mistakes when we went to their place. We had 29 turnovers and didn't shoot well from the paint. Now we're more familiar with our game versus their game and the good news is we get them at home.

John Flaherty

If they have more than one hearing, it won't be that bad. But you get the sense they're trying to rush some of this, which makes it hard for people to take time to read and get familiar with this and come down to Dover.

Utada Hikaru

I'd been familiar with the recording process since I was little, but I felt that this is what it's like to actually do it myself.

George Foreman

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Joff Redfern

Now, we're saying there's a wider universe out there.

Anthony Blair

Never let them see you're nervous, ... It's not what you're saying that counts, but how you say it.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Amber Frey

On Saturday, you were saying that there's so many things you thought about ... about us, but you haven't shared them with me. Why can't you share them to me on the phone?

Greg Biffle

So I'm saying we're not out of it.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

Kenny Loggins

That's an old saying I just made up.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Grady Fuson

Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Olivia Munn

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

Sharon Stone

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Wim Wenders

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Jevon Kearse

Obviously, they didn't like what they were seeing. We didn't like what we were seeing either, but we couldn't leave.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

On one hand, it's going to be tough seeing him over there,

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.