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.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Claude Pepper

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.

Brad Folta

Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.

Aimee McPherson

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Gary Brown

soft on high-ranking government officials. Can you imagine the fallout if they didn't look into it?

Brian Lowery

Mental toughness was the key. We were doing a good job of getting out and being where we wanted to be at the mile mark of races but would fall back in the middle part of the race. We did a good job by not falling back today (Thursday).

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Charlotte Rae

I feel that sex should be part of something more meaningful than just being something casual. Television should be a little more responsible because today you can get HIV or you can get pregnant if you don't have someone guiding you along. I'm not a prude, but I think the television industry has a responsibility to the community, especially the teenage community.

Kimberly Williams

She has put her heart and soul into this event. Her leadership has been a guiding light to all of us.

Don Waddell

We're really pleased to have Peter guiding our Olympic Team.

Timothy Hutton

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

Judith Guest

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle

Paul Haggis

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

David Suzuki

Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

Casey Neistat

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

Alan Lightman

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Shay Cox

Megan had a big game. She had two big shots, and she really needed them.

Bill Belichick

Obviously, we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays we needed to make to win, that's why we didn't win.

Charles Seaton

One trip cock on each end was redundant. We only needed one trip cock per car.

Michael Turner

More observations are needed to find out what is going on here.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

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.

Mary Mulrenan

It's a traumatic experience. I mean, they're robbed at gunpoint, and of course, you can see this person, he's all business, he's aggressive. So it's a scary, scary situation.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

Gianluigi Buffon

For us, there is surely no other alternative. We have to win.

Rob Lowe

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

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And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.