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.

Tom Woodruff

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

Bob Kirby

Madison looked very comfortable shooting. The bottom line is that if we can get that third wheel in the scorebook each week, we could be tough down the stretch.

Adan Dualle

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

David Yost

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

Steven Camarota

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

Skip Rimer

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Al Horford

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.

Tom Kettman

(Media) comparing us to this team and that team, we're not looking into any of that comparison stuff. The bottom line is, we've got to stay focused, keep wrestling the way we've been wrestling all season.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Dr. Farrar

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

James Meade

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

Greg Ward

I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is the one to train the deputies.

Doug Summers

I think it's part of the mayor's (Kevin Burns) push for Geneva to get a lot of restaurants in Geneva.

Jana Killen

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.

Kelvin Philpot

Geneva was ready and hungry for us. They just jumped on top of us real quick.

Gary Roberson

And besides, Geneva was here. I love history.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Bill Bixby

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have anything to suggest that is accurate. I have no indication that there are any unaccounted for personnel.

Wade Pogany

I don't have any indication that's happening. It is possible, sure. Any school could do that.

Jerry Klein

I don't have any indication at all, really, one way or the other.

Shyam Saran

I do not see any indication yet that there could be joint operations.

Oliver Purnell

We still have every indication that James Mays will be returning this summer.

Pokey Chatman

Today was a strong indication of us getting better as a team. Several key players got some rest and some reserves got some playing time before getting into the SEC.

Mark Carmon

We don't have any indication that this has spread offsite.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Phoebe Philo

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

A. Johnson

Just showing off my personality. Once I get in the end zone, that's all it is.

Hideo Kojima

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Robert Horan

He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.