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.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Danny Brown

Lot of these businesses ain't going to get no business because of the road construction. It needs to be fixed. Eight months is long enough. They prolong it too much.

John Frisbie

Many of these ministries ran various industrial sectors, and U.S. businesses had to deal with them, but today hardly any of them are in the industrial sectors.

Bill Cheney

Many businesses see statistics showing economic growth as a cruel joke. Competition is still brutal, wages are still rising, prices are still flat or falling, and profits are as hard to find as they were a year ago.

John Oxendine

Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses.

Greg Sterling

Seventy-one percent of small businesses say they'd rather have phone leads than clicks.

Chris Rice

Much like businesses prefer to use managed services, we think consumers will look for managed services, too.

Robert Walsh

Mayor Bloomberg has led the way for making New York City more business-friendly, and these grants are another great resource for the city's businesses and workers, ... Today, new technology can cause industries to change overnight. In order to stay competitive, businesses need highly-trained employees with a flexible skill set.

Nat Friedman

One of the things that people like about apt-get is having an easy-to-use software catalog at their fingertips, so if you want to install some missing software on your machine, you can do it with a quick command.

Eric Lin

We had been talking to the previous owner on and off for a while, trying to figure out a way to save these prints. He said that at some point he wanted to try to catalog everything, but it's kind of an enormous task.

Lucy Griffiths

I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either.

Trent Reznor

When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore.

Rick Lane

We haven't had a new product come through here in years, ... We haven't had a catalog here for years and years and years.

Soledad O'Brien

We struck an unusual deal. I'll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand at CNN - 'Black in America' - that I now own. I can take that brand and extend it in any way I want.

Jonathan Cain

We've got a tremendous catalog of lots of hit songs, which I wrote either a half or a third of

Jeff Holland

Catalog blow-ins are the fastest growing insert media.

Derek Brown

Look at the success of J. Crew or L.L. Bean, ... Catalog companies have to show their items with pictures. J. Crew is a good example of a company that's done a good job of replicating the feel of their catalog online.

Brian Sabean

Matt will be a perfect complement to the top of the rotation.

John McCaul

My goal is to make it city-wide, in each sector, to complement the police so residents help by being eyes and ears for police.

Mary Cleave

New Horizons will study a unique world, and we can only imagine what we may learn. This is a prime example of scientific missions that complement the Vision for Space Exploration.

Scott Niedermayer

Obviously, on the ice I feel very comfortable with him. I didn't know we'd complement each other when he got here, but after playing with him for a while I think we fit together pretty well.

Justin Timberlake

The right scent can make you feel a little more stylish, but it should never eclipse who you are. It should complement who you are.

Carlos Delgado

I don't know much about how it was before I got here, but I can tell you we have a real good team and that creates a buzz. I feel pretty good about our chances. I'm not good at predicting anything, and after you spend a little time in the game you realize expectations don't mean nothing. I want to go to Spring Training and get in the winning mode. I want to meet some of the guys I've never met and try to see what we can do as a team and what we can't do and find a way we can complement each other.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I like to choose things that fit my body for sure; you learn to find the things that complement your shape.

George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.

John Tuozzo

We were a good complement to each other. She was a point guard and loved to pass and play defense, and I loved to shoot.

Madeline Albright

Security is an inherent, inextricable and indispensable component of all our jobs,

Annalee Newitz

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

Jimmy Williams

One of our focuses is learning how the components were obtained and the devices made,

Keith Freeman

Obviously, Western played very physically. They really did a terrific job of defending us and defending the key components of our offense. They're to be commended for being able to do that. They did a great job.

Twyla Tharp

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

Vicky Meretsky

The primary lesson that needs to be learned from this experience is that each recovery program has unique aspects. A research component that watches what is going on and learns from that is essential. There was no research component to this program at all.

John Cummings

The primary components are having some type of water, a minimum of one gallon of water per person per day.

Frank Holmes

There are many components here that are driving gold, and they sort of rotate around. It's not linear.

Greg Denue

One of the key components they look at is taking responsibility.

Dave Zagorac

Lighting shines on all the hatches. The Police Department drives by all the time.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid's office has not been contacted by the Justice Department at all.

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Ranjit Singh

No one seems to know for sure how much is raised and how the money is used. Not the IRB, not the ROS neither any government department nor agency.

Rick Kaufman

On Feb. 2, Mr. Bates was called into the (Lakewood) police department and confessed to the incident.

Eric Dietz

My department supports this but we support it for specific public safety reasons because we felt it will enhance and improve public safety.

Marc Lumpkin

Now that this letter has been sent to us, we will investigate (the allegations). Our legal department will get involved and investigate it.

Arthur Levin

Now the Health Department needs to publicize its existence wherever it can. Otherwise you have a hotline nobody knows about.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Gary Chase

Given the combination of recent share price weakness, especially in relative context, and slightly increased revenue assumptions, we see improvement in the risk-reward equation for LCC.

Marty Turco

Frustration is not part of the equation at this time of the season. We didn't do ourselves any favors with our lack of discipline. The next four games will show more of what we want to take into the playoffs. We need to get our game and heads back on track.

Eric Young

She was part of the equation that got me back so quick.

Bruce Lipton

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Prem Rawat

What we're looking for is happiness, and in all our searching who do we forget? Ourselves. Whatever the equation is that you have created, please include yourself in it, because without you, without your heart, without peace in your life, there can never be peace in the world.

Kenny Williams

There are so many formulas, equations and theories in this game right now, ... I'm sorry, but I'm getting confused. We had to go back in time and come up with some things that have always been timeless in this game.

Steve O'Hara

Key to our success in the new season is the staff and infrastructure surrounding the squad of players and most important in that equation is the management team.

Brandon Roy

When we won here, Salim Stoudamire didn't play. To take him out of the equation is doing a lot. Last year, he played and we didn't win.

Guy Kirk

Our findings suggest the soil part of the equation is scarier than we had thought. The consequence is that there is more urgency about doing something.

Scott Adams

One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys

Robert Rodriguez

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

Mike Gascoyne

We had a very successful test with the TF105B, which features a different front suspension from the TF105, ... We had a problem with the power steering at the previous test, but here at Silverstone we were able to eradicate it.

Abdullah Ocalan

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Jimmy McKinney

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

Paul Allen

I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Ron Redmond

From a global perspective, refugee is a neutral term.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Nicholas Burns

If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Steve Case

lead the convergence of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries.

Doug Lewis

One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

Rick Kaufman

One of our students received a warning ... through the Internet last night at their house.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

Harry S Truman

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.