Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunter Grass

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Jonathan Feeney

We believe that Kellogg is the best-executing food company. It stands out for its solid momentum amidst competitors that face pressure in both pricing and volume over the next year.

Al Cárdenas

She can't bunker up for a few days amidst rampant rumors of her leaving the race and not have something dramatic to say. My sense is she's going to opt to stay (in the race) and make a statement that fits into that dramatic category.

Scott Gewirtz

Pausing amidst robust data contradicts earlier statements that they are data dependent. If you were someone who was looking for the Fed to protect your fixed-income investment, if they pause and they're wrong, inflation pressures can build in that period.

Tony Russa

My point was (Saturday) that amidst all the runs, both of the guys did a lot of good things. (Sunday), Wainwright pitched well, but he made a couple mistakes that he got away with.

Emile Galle

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

Orrin Hatch

I was surprised they did it amidst their merger because ... there are a lot of questions about the merger to begin with, ... We've raised some of them in our hearing.  And we may have to have more hearings, I don't know.

Marissa Davis

The experience wasn't just about volunteering and being amidst devastation and sadness and depression. You were really able to become a part of these people's lives.

Bradley Chicho

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

E. O. Wilson

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Norman MacCaig

There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

Adam Rothberg

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nina Jacobson

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Jess Walter

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Estelle

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Talen Singer

We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump.

Mike Bair

There are customers from every corner of the globe.

Madeline Albright

There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.

Robert Gallucci

There is no other country on Earth that I know of that is exporting ballistic missiles the way North Korea is. They've cornered the market.

Neil Peart

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Rick Steves

What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them.

Tom Poti

We knew they were vulnerable, they had a tough loss the other night and we knew they had a new goalie. And with a team like that, you've got to jump on them early and that's what we did. We got the first goal and we just kept going from there.

Derackk Curtis

We knew they were going to come out strong early and we managed to stem the tide. D-Y is a well-coached veteran team that plays with a lot of emotion. Our goalie, Matt Ryan, was obviously a key factor for us.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Chris Renner

We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

David Almond

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Jerry Johnson

We are privately owned and we do not routinely give out information about our customers. I imagine if we do either, we sell (grain).

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God sent you here to prepare for a future greater than anything can imagine.

Arthur C. Clarke

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

bell hooks

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

Charlie Daniels

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Matt Bitonti

We had 13,000 unique visitors here today on a Monday. Can you imagine if you had 13,000 people in a room, and you were talking to them? That's what you're doing. It's about reaching people, having a voice, having an opinion.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.