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.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Tony Woodley

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Robert Reid

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Michael Cohen

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Henry Schacht

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Terry Williamson

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Bill Ford

Lots of stuff that made this company great started off as something that wasn't in the budget.

Konrad Becker

Last year they had a big contribution from selling company stakes. Next year they won't have that.

J. Hoover

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Barry Hannah

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Andy Stern

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Ralph Lauren

It's sport utility done in a dressed-up way,