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.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Audrey Lewis

Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.

Chaz Bickers

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, we can't make airplanes without our team members there to build them.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

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.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Robert Klein

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Richard Greenfield

makes sense strategically, because it gives a cable component to what investors are viewing as the boring, unexciting growth side of the post-split company.

Kevin Rudd

Mr. Downer read none of the cables which were relevant to this scandal.

Darren Star

Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

Steve McMahon

One factor that commonly comes up in towns that install wireless early is that they didn't have something like DSL available. We have DSL, now we have cable modems, now we have several options. Sometimes the good enough is the enemy of the better. The fact that we've got good enough for most people slows it down.

Steve MacDonald

Now you have hundreds of networks that have customers that are demanding original programming. All of these cable networks have some level of original programming.

Rhea Seehorn

I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.

Matthew Felling

I can't see a demand for a cable tier with no sports programming nor any of the big three cable news networks.

Gene Kimmelman

The prices are soaring. With the end of final government oversight of cable rates, the prices will continue to soar, because most consumers do not have a choice. There's only one cable company in their community.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Kim Smith

Make sure that you choose the right agency... there are a lot of scams out there. Never do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Christine Anderson

Making music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I could choose whether to be very famous right now or respected and understood a hundred years after I die, I'd choose the second option.

Ashley Young

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.

Ric Edelman

Left to their own devices, (investors) naturally choose safety and it's one of the worst decisions they can make,

Sarah Breathnach

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the ''good life'' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

H. Hunt

Leslie (Alexander) is the practitioner. I'm very interested in why people choose to poison the things they are going to eat.

Mary Wormington

Many people will choose Texarkana as their new home because of its hospitality.

Howard Opinsky

Shareholders lose when companies choose to settle investigations motivated by political ambition, fueled by threats and settled out of fear.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

Peter Kelly

Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.

Don Harrison

Seventy percent of our customers are weekend warriors who do their own work. The other 30 percent are contractors.

Marty Heires

Serving our customers is what it's all about. The idea is to utilize technology to make our customers' experiences as pleasant as possible.

Dan Buenning

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Turkish Proverb

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb

John Kosmina

When you concede dumb goals, you've usually got to pay a price.

Jerry Coleman

I don't feel quite as dumb as they make me look,

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Walter Benjamin

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Ed Schultz

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Scottie Somers

Love allows you to dream. Fear allows you to pursue your dreams.

Madame de Stael

Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Jamie Woodruff

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Pat McDonnell

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Ron Gardenhire

Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Jeffrey Bryant

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Sean Booth

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Atharva Veda

You are strong! You are the provider of joy! Go to the sages and their sons!Live at the place of virtuous souls to become well-cultured !

George Kafkarkou

Small solution providers are just as important to CA as the big solution provider. They make the market, and we are respectful of that.

Tim Duffy

In some of these areas, we are the only provider of coverage.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John Haddan

We were struggling the first time through the league.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Tim Barrett

I think they wore us down. We were struggling getting into our half-court offense.

Errol Alcott

I think he's struggling for this weekend, that's for sure.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.