Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Ted Baker

Given that we're starting on Sept. 2 and the NHL pre-season doesn't start until two or three weeks after that, we'll be able to dialogue with the NHL about things we're seeing in our games that will hopefully help everyone.

Sanjaya Baru

The Prime Minister would like all men and women of goodwill in the dialogue process to end the period of suffering.

Kate Grenville

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Tracy Chapman

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Sha Zukang

We are ready to have dialogue . . . we are ready to talk to them,

Vuk Draskovic

We are ready for dialogue and we are ready to stop the demonstrations. ... (but) that dialogue must be expressed in the media -- state media -- in a free and open way.

Dennis Prager

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Jack Randorff

If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. And if you can't understand the words here, there's no reason for a convention.

Neil Turok

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Charles Baudelaire

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Rick Perlstein

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Let's all wait for those results and respect people's sovereignty in accordance to the existing law.

Steve Carr

Machine-to-machine communications is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the industry, and Wavecoms products are recognised for their high quality and technology leadership. Wavecom also complements a number of our existing product ranges, including microsystems, semiconductors and RF products.

Greg Mortenson

Many of these schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor. But some of them seem only to exist to teach militant jihad.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Eric Maskin

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Kat Morgan

If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.

Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

Rohit Shetty

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Rohit Shetty

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

Rohit Shetty

My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Marco Brambilla

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

John Curran

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Jody Hill

Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Mark Lisanti

Many of the actors in these films had a glimmer of hope of being the next big thing at one point. They're still well-known enough from that spark to get name recognition.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Andre Agassi

My intention is to keep working and keep doing what I am doing, ... The only thing better than the last 20 years (at the U.S. Open) will be 21.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Geno Auriemma

She wasn't that thrilled to play. When I took her out, I had no intention of putting her back in. But all that went out the window in the second half.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Brene Brown

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

Kris Draper

One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.

Earl Nightingale

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

John Beilein

When we shoot them like that, we can play with a lot of people.

John Beilein

If we're shooting well, we're a tough out.

Elaine Elliott

She's a perfectionist to a fault. She'll just keep shooting to prepare. She'll do the same thing she always does. She'll try to get into a rhythm, and I'll just try to get her to smile.

Jon Snow

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Daryll Hill

Shoot or pass. It was in between. I should have shot it, but I made a pass.

Kyle Korver

Shooting threes is always what I do best. If it's not what I do best, something is wrong with my game.

Joe DeBruyne

Shooting has been our bugaboo. We didn't rebound. That was the difference.

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

Christian Cooke

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

John Ontjes

Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.

Gerry McNamara

I was surprised. I thought they'd foul, and they didn't. I just tried to get a shot up there on the glass, and I put it up just right and it went down.

Daniel Tetrault

I was right on him, but he got the shot off.

Xavier Perkins

I got to feel with him, I got a shot to play professionally.

Steve Novak

I got the shot we wanted. It just wouldn't go down.

Steve Novak

I got (Sheridan) in the air, which is what I wanted to do, but the shot didn't go in.

Spike Jonze

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

Jaycee Carroll

I make that shot 99 out of a 100 times.

Ryan Smith

I'm a junior, so I know I'll have another shot at him.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Chris Petersen

Because of that (relationship), we've studied the Utah situation a lot.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Zeev Boim

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Dan Fogleman

We are pausing and evaluating the situation thoroughly at this point.

Charlotte Rampling

We are on the verge of this situation all our lives,