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.

Judy Wade

Let's face it, she's not in the first blush of youth, ... And she hasn't had a face-lift like rich U.S. women would have.

Nicholas Rowe

From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.

Thomas Gray

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

John Whittier

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/ But spare your country's flag,' she said./ A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,/ Over the face of the leader came.

Charles Dickens

The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?

Ansel Elgort

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

Craig Bandoroff

He's a very nice horse, correct, a good mover. He's not a big horse. He kind of looks like his pedigree. She (his dam) is a Blushing Groom mare. I'd be surprised if he didn't go over well.

Calvin Klein

There are shades of buff, nude and lots of blue, ... I was thinking of eye-shadow colors and blush and lip colors. There's peach, pink -- lots of blue, actually -- and lots of gray.

John Coffee

There is no blushing when it comes to making these demands, as long as management is only negotiating with the compensation committee and not with shareholders.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Michael Panzner

Lucent this morning hints at the possibility that you may see other disappointing earnings in the sexier names. The reality is that expectations seem pretty high and the price of the market as a whole has moved higher to reflect that. It doesn't leave a lot of room for disappointment.

John Butters

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Marc Shapiro

Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.

Patrick Casselman

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

Michael Sheldon

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start. I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

Michael Sheldon

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start, ... I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

Sunil Reddy

Motorola had to spread its resources over too many areas. By moving away from the semiconductor business, it can spend more on research and development and also make its earnings stream more smooth.

Thomas Bauer

No one gave me this information. That's earnings management, that's never OK.

Joseph Abbott

Next week will be extremely heavy for earnings news ,

Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Joel Stoneton

We're not big and strong, but we're a quick, fast team. We're not going to overpower you, but we can run around you to the outside. We're just going to spread the field and see what happens.

Dave Brogioli

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

Robert Brown

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Scott Runkel

Lee is a powerful kid. He's off to a pretty fast start and hopefully he'll stay hot.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Amanda Palmer

Sean and Paul have been following the band's growth for the past two years and have a real understanding of what we're trying to capture. The record is going to be fast and furious, immediate and raw.

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Jim Tressel

Mike is strong as a bull, and a surprisingly fast guy. And he's one of those players whose motor only has one speed - all out. He plays so hard that he gives the other team all kinds of problems.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Albert Schweitzer

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Safa Rashtchy

For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.

Kim Clijsters

I would have loved to have played another year under his guidance,

Chris Lozier

I'm a little surprised they didn't raise guidance after this kind of a quarter, but I think that's probably just conservatism right now.

Laura Paro

I have a very experienced defense. I'll be looking for strong senior leadership and guidance back there.

Rick Dempsey

When I returned to the Orioles as a coach, I turned to Elrod for help and guidance. No one knew more about the organization.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Eric Ross

Guidance was disappointing. Inventories and chipset shortages are still issues.

Robert Litan

He will be one influential judge--no question about it. I think the justices will look to him for guidance because he had that job.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Yajur Veda

May all the radiance unify and increase in magnitude.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Masao Nakamura

Next year is going to be the peak year in many different ways. We're seeing a steep increase in 3G users now, so we have to keep the momentum going next year.

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.

Kylie Jenner

Makeup looks better if your skin is not dry. And sometimes, if my skin peels, then it's all just bad. Basically, take care of your skin to make your makeup look nice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up,

Jay Frye

Looks like they (Notre Dame) will offer both.

Robert Prince

Looks like the truck was stuck in the snow.

David Williams

Looks like somebody had a wrestling match in them.

Jane Moore

Looks like he's going to have to settle for just being the stupidest.

Paul McCurtain

Looks like everything occurred on the scene at the house." ()

Brian Williams

Look on the left. There's something that looks like a bulldozer.

Neel Mehta

Security software is usually the first inline that looks at incoming data.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

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.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.