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.

John Benson

Mr Blunkett has also always said he is proud of his working-class background, so we hope that has not been drummed out of him by New Labour and he can find a way of helping working-class people.

Gary Jacobson

One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.

Tom Amstutz

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Donald Rumsfeld

I would characterize it as an isolated problem.

Jeff Fontaine

I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...

Abraham Maslow

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Pierce Brown

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

Greg Sparling

We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot.

Cecil Murray

The wounds are in the process of healing, ... They have not healed, but there are isolated moments where you can note progress here on this hill.

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

Jim Bradley

On the run itself we have 92 barricades and over 300 cones.

Dan Aykroyd

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Allen Settle

The project itself was not voted on in 1999,

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

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.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

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.