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.

Mike Janko

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

Cal Jillson

Lots of businesses already have domestic-partner benefits and those are already resolved. What business groups need is stability; they need to know what the law is and move on.

Helen Darling

Leading employers in the U.S. remain committed to helping their employees with health benefits coverage and programs to improve their health and the health of their families. These employers know that one of the most important ways to control costs is to help employees and their families get and stay healthy.

Henry Paulson

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

David McCall

Many of these people have never, ever had a livable wage. It will also give them benefits like paid time off and those kinds of things that most people look for in a job.

Harley Shaiken

Many companies are looking to roll back benefits, and benefits for retirees are at the top of the list. This decision says that while they may be first on the list, they may not be easy to cut.

Julie Sanders

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

John Nester

Soft dollars have potential benefits and downsides for investors. The commission has been working to limit the downsides while preserving the benefits, one of them being research.

Tony Wilson

So it's kind of like, trust us, we're going to spend all this money, we're going to revolutionize the network and there are going to be great benefits but you're going to have to wait three years before you get them.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

Robbie Earl

Like coach (Mike Eaves) said, the season's not over. We've got bigger accomplishments to seize in the next couple of weeks.

Gilbert Arenas

Lute Olson teaches the NBA system. If you look at his players, they may not be dominant in college but they're going to make a bigger impact in the NBA just because of the way they play up and down. Players learn and develop and make mistakes and learn for themselves.

Ken Worthington

Lehman is the winner so far this quarter. Lehman has a bigger fixed income business proportional to the size of the company.

Michael Ashcroft

Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.

Neil Stern

Sears is a store that is designed for suburbia. They sell a lot of things like major appliances, barbecues and power tools that intrinsically go to people with bigger houses and garages and room to put this stuff.

Neil Stern

Sears is a store that is designed for suburbia, ... They sell a lot of things like major appliances, barbecues and power tools that intrinsically go to people with bigger houses and garages and room to put this stuff.

Mack Brown

Selvin is 100 percent, ... He's gotten his speed back. He's gotten his vision back. He's bigger and strong, and he's definitely ready to go.

Tony Delk

So he comes in one day and tells us they went and got her new shoes and when Ella was measured, she was like three sizes bigger than the shoes they had been squeezing her feet into, ... She was walking like a day later. He was so embarrassed.

Andrew Smith

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

Bob Podges

Liana is really starting to understand the concept of taking what she can get and not forcing it.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

Jason Catlett

My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.

Dave Winer

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

Anita Elberse

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Sophie Aldred

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

Song Min

Now we are talking about the concept of the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. We are not at the stage to discuss in details about how this concept will develop at a later stage,

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Henry Ford

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Larry Ellison

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

Chad Hurley

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Edgar Prado

She was in a good position but (Proposed) had quicker acceleration than my filly. I think that was the difference. But my horse was gaining and she galloped out good and strong.

Corky Palmer

I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.

Cody Pickett

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.