Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

Tracy Kidder

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

Mercedes Pascual

I did find evidence for an increase in temperature, which the authors of the previous paper said was not there.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

David Macinnis Gill

Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.

Daniel Suarez

Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.

George MacDonald Fraser

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

Mo Shaoping

Many lawyers who handled criminal cases have ended up in prison.

James Diamond

Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.

Kandise Gilbertson

One of the things we saw was a decline in cases and a better understanding by the council of its role. I feel like it's been really successful.

Ron Huberman

One of the things that disturbed us historically was the backlog of cases that existed. We are very happy to see that a lot of that backlog is now starting to be chipped away at. We're seeing a rapid turnaround of cases,

Santo Centamore

One main problem with these cases has been that we needed to get these kids identified. They're new to us.

Nathan Brookwood

My expectation is that Intel's new products are definitely going to narrow the gap with AMD, and in some cases may even close the gap.

Vickie McKeever

Mumps have been in Iowa for the last 10 years, but this year we've had more mumps cases than we've had in the last 10 years combined.

John Powell

Now we'll be able to work those cases in house more efficiently,

Edward Fox

Now that means in some cases, maybe occasionally, supplemental food and in other cases maybe it will mean a daily ration of food to keep them alive,

Asa Hutchinson

Obviously this is an adversarial process we are engaged in.

Cory Booker

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

Sarah Stevens

The projects get the kids engaged - it is reading and researching and writing and history.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Christopher Koch

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Bernie Sanders

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Patricia Schroeder

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Scott Rudin

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Barbara Kellerman

We need followers who are engaged and supportive, not just resistant.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Craig Hansen

I feel like I'm ready. I feel like my game's 100 percent right now.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

David Buck

I would say 99 percent of what's out there on the road right now is not a safety hazard, not an impediment.

Kyle Cavanaugh

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.