Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeannine Kenney

Network operators have always functioned as neutral transmitters, meaning they don't control who you call, when you call, et cetera. So until this point, consumers were led to believe that they would not monitor communication on their networks absent a warrant.

Brad Coker

Nevada was never Carter country back in the 1970s, and I just don't think Jack Carter has much of a chance, although you never completely dismiss anyone. Absent any fiasco by Ensign, Carter is going to have a tough time.

John Donne

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak

Yasuhiro Yoshikawa

I did not want to make a conclusion today and tell those who were absent to accept it.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

Martin Kennedy

We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content. This test is easier than it sounds. Because clay minerals make up the bulk of sediment deposited today, we are saying that it should be largely absent in ancient rocks. And this is just what one finds.

Sunil Mittal

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.

Caroline Knapp

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

Rand Paul

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

Pankaj Mishra

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

Norah Vincent

As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.

George Fleming

Let them know who may be contacting them, and briefly outline the key elements you would like them to respond to. That way, your references will be able to respond with relevant information.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

James Blake

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

Peter Guralnick

I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life.

Don Brown

I felt he handled the elements a little better. He did a nice job and gave us a lift off the bench.

Hagrup Haukland

The question is how much the security forces can take and the ceasefire can hold. There are powers and elements that do not want peace within this country.

Hagrup Haukland

The question is how much the security forces can take and the cease-fire can hold. There are powers and elements that do not want peace within this country.

Tabatha Coffey

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.

Toni Trucks

Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Tom Shippey

Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of fairy tale -- elves, dwarves, trolls, dragons, wizards. Those have all come out of fairy tales. But Tolkien put the whole thing on the map, ... A lot of that stuff is traditional material that he has codified and rationalized in a kind of 20th-century way.

Mollie King

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Todd Clark

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

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears

Jonathan Brandis

I was so young I really didn't have any real fears or hesitations about the business. It's when I got older when I realized how much it all meant.

Peter Cardillo

If we get a strong number (Friday) it could rekindle fears of another Fed tightening and that will keep investors on the defensive.

Akitsugu Bando

Basically, fears about possible higher interest rates in the near future have not been erased.

Bill Rammell

I do not think those fears are justified.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong reason to worry.

Kathleen Edwards

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

Scott Eastwood

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Neil Chethik

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Gary Speed

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Adam Beach

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

Jessalyn Gilsig

For myself, anyway, I think that recurring has been such a gift, because I've been able to work on a lot of shows that I've really had a lot of respect for before I went in, shows like 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Nip/Tuck,' for example.

Tracy Chapman

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Brian Joubert

Now you can win without a quad, and that doesn't seem right.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

David Swain

Is it just me, or is there a lot of sexual tension in here?

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Chris Evert

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

Keith David

Of course, I was sort of a TV junkie too.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Edmund White

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Andrew Niccol

I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it,

John Eldredge

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

Richard Matheson

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.