Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Isla Fisher

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

Isabella Rossellini

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Janet Prust

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Kay Vandervort

Life isn't easy. We've all had situations where we needed emotional support from a friend. Consider if you did not have a friend to hold your hand when times got tough.

Cliff Robertson

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

Alan Young

Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.

Caroline DeWaal

Many more of these plants should be considered failures.

Bill Coleman

Many people consider salary negotiations a negative thing, something to be avoided.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Ann Stevenson

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Mark McClellan

Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I'm saying. NASCAR can do what they want with it. By no means did I purposely wreck Dale Jarrett. I was shocked and surprised and when he later ran into us. I wasn't expecting it.

Jonathan Clark

My kids out there were playing okay, but in their minds, the numbers they?re shooting are nothing like what they were expecting to shoot,

Sean Sutton

My focus all week has been on our players. They didn't come to Oklahoma State expecting this to happen. It's been hard on them. But I have a responsibility to them and to this school. I try to keep that in my mind as much as possible and keep a positive outlook.

Henry Gomez

On ebay, the packages people are receiving are expected. They(consumers) have contacted a seller, have been bidding on the item and there's feedback, so usually you're expecting a package. You usually have some sense of what you're getting.

Billy Knight

(Monday) will be the soft opening of a break-out year. I've been hearing a lot of positive things from the community. They're expecting a lot and we're ready to give it to them.

Ashley Haynes

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

Dr. Chauvet

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

Grant Williams

News Corp's fairly firm so it's taking some of the red out the index.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Infosys, with the rest of the Indian IT industry, has transformed the image of India around the world, transformed the image of Indian professionals, creating huge opportunities for them.

Steve Denney

Lots of wheels are in motion right now. This is a huge project involving lots of activities.

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Ian Forrester

One thing that perhaps isn't appreciated in the West is the huge potential that we have here.

Joe Gibbs

Now you've positioned yourself to play big games, ... This was huge for us, really a big deal.

Barbara Ryan

Obviously, it's a huge market and it's growing.

Peter Greene

Obviously, these stocks have had a huge run-up. The theory is to sell on the news. That's what's occurring is you're selling on the news.

Mark Slonaker

Obviously that five-point play was a huge momentum switch. It's disappointing. Then we couldn't make the plays to stay even after the five-point play.

Joseph Boyden

When I look in the mirror, I don't say 'I'm an Indian'. It's not a huge part of my make-up but a huge part of who I am.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Alan Ackerman

Traders and investors feel more comfortable with the value sector of the market, ... What we're seeing is a two-tiered market.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

François Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light

Joanne Davis

My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.

David Burks

Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Gia Coppola

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Mark Richt

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

Alan Culpepper

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.

Pete Egan

So fouls were a real problem for us, obviously.

Barbara Johnson

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

Dennis Weaver

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Denis Healey

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Dean Kamen

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Milwaukee Brewers

much more well-rounded as a result of the trade.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Bill Gates

If we don't do this right, we won't get the result we need.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Iris Krebber

Much too much time has already been lost. In mid-2004 we already saw the first signs of a serious drought.

Pat Cleland

Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.

Craig Schlanger

Of course, no one saw him do this, no one is saying they saw him do it.

Joshua Michael Stern

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Donna Smith

I can't live over water. I can't swim. I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rafael Palmeiro

I wouldn't think so. I mean, that's why I got it from him. I didn't suspect that he would be on anything.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Will Tudor

I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.

Geraldine McCaughrean

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Joe Roberts

I suspect we?ll see him in the top 10 for some time to come, and he?ll probably be at the top of the list.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.

Kitty Lagareta

I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness.