Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Red Berenson

We have to have a good game tomorrow. When the smoke clears on Sunday, we'll see what our situation is. But if we don't, I don't know that we deserve any.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

John Emery

We have never looked at exiting that asset. I want to be perfectly clear on that.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

John Terry

We were a lot of points in front and we've dropped a few - we lost to Fulham and a couple of results didn't go our way. But we are still fighting. We are seven points clear and any team would take that at the end of the season.

John Devine

We have product and distribution plans to fit each of those brands, ... I know there's a lot of speculation about what we're doing and that's fine. But I want to be clear we do not have plans to drop any brands.

Gareth Davis

We've spoken to Steve at length and made it very clear that we would like him to stay. It's an ongoing process, and my expectation is that it will be a few days before we know one way or the other.

Adam Ereli

We've seen the reports of comments attributed to other party officials.

Tom Noonan

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

John Keats

Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan's comments support equity gains, ... And investors may have turned around their view of Intel.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan didn't say anything new but his comments were one of the reasons we saw this early spurt take the market up and wane in the afternoon. But when it's all said and done, what the market is really grasping for here is some really good earnings in technology stocks.

Greg Bensel

Mr. Benson did write a message Sunday night to the commissioner expressing his concern about the incident that occurred following the game. It was an emotional and distressing situation and very unfortunate for him and his family. His comments to the commissioner relayed his frustration and at this time he has not yet made a decision on his plans for this weekend's game.

Trent Duffy

Mr. Aristide has resigned his office and has left the country. And now the Haitian people are involved with grasping democracy and moving forward on an interim government. And that's where the focus should be right now. And any comments that would stir up more division are not helpful, as the Haitian people move toward a greater democracy.

Ralph Kauffman

Many members' comments expressed concern about the continuing rise in oil and gas prices.

Chris Tinker

The real dilemma they have is future reserve growth. Shell isn't up to the game compared with BP.

John Rymer

We used to talk about open systems compared to very proprietary systems like the AS/400 where you could only get it from one vendor. It just isn't the same type of discussion any more.

Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

Suzanne Fields

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

David Albright

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.

Victor Shum

Vehicle sales growth has been dramatic compared to last year. This suggests that the future demand for oil products will remain strong.

Pam Munger

This was a slow-paced game compared with what we played on Monday. We missed some shots that I don't think we should be missing at this point in the season ... (but) I liked some of the looks we had defensively.

Jermaine Jackson

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

David Yen

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Avery Shenfeld

Whenever you have a situation where inflation is not a material risk and the economy is underperforming, you should be thinking about a rate cut. There's a potential reward and not much risk.

Susan Hering

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

Scott Browne

The problem with the economy right now is insufficient demand, not supply. The meat and potatoes of this plan is supply-side medicine for a demand-side problem.

Gregory Smith

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

John Challenger

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.

Barry Hyman

The productivity number is key toward determining whether the economy can show some stabilization. We've seen weakening numbers, which hasn't helped, but there is no inflation story to talk about here.

Norihiro Fujito

The outlook for the economy will become a focal point this week.

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Ted Ludwig

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

Avan Jogia

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Don Kelly

Two or more of the participants in the march -- young men -- had an argument,

David Gates

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

Brian Robertson

The paints don't have any formaldehyde in them.

Dave Arnold

Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Edgar Degas

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

Christopher Dixon

One picture is not going to make a significant difference.

Thomas Kinkade

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Mark Parr

The real story here is the much-improved profitability picture that has emerged.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.