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.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Bob Collins

Looks like it's not going to have a big impact for our area,

Jay Sekulow

left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship.

Nastassja Kinski

Movies with Marilyn Monroe really had an impact on me.

Ron Lamberty

One of the things plants look for when they locate, they want to be somewhere where they won't impact the water supply. They usually try to locate at places where there is plentiful water.

Mark Kalwinski

More people means more revenues for the city, but it does impact on residents' quality of life.

Jim Delany

Money is important. People here (in Indianapolis) don't mince words when they talk about a $10 million impact (on the local economy). We're not going to go somewhere where we have to take less money.

Dennis Franz

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

Dean Smith

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Mark Shapiro

From a level of mental toughness and competitiveness, he has kind of reframed the standard for all of us in this organization. He made a big impact on our young starting pitchers.

James Graham

Maurice, I am very impressed by that piece of work,

Jean Seberg

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

Eric Chavez

Of all the times I've been here, ... this was the most impressed I've ever been with one of our pitchers.

Diane Keaton

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

Joah Tucker

If anything, it stayed the same or maybe went up some. A lot of people will be impressed with my physical size and strength.

Lou Holtz

I was impressed with the facilities, the stadium,

Tim Thompson

I was impressed ... with how well they've progressed.

Tiffani Airmet

I was impressed with her poise. I thought she kept it together. She didn't get wild.

Sakie Yokota

I was impressed that they seriously listened to each of our comments.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Liu Jiangyong

China-Japan relationship deteriorated rather than improved over the year, and the deterioration trend will move on.

Derek Allen

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Andres Nocioni

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

Lloyd Hulit

Lauren pitched well in the first game. We just could not get our motors going on offense.

Amy Saelens

Lauren is our No. 1 pitcher this year. She's come on strong and is confident.

Terra McDaniels

Lauren impresses me every day and every minute. It doesn't matter which end.

Emiliano Aragon

Lauren has been waiting to click. When she does, it's going to be pretty gnarly.

Jayne Meadows

Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.

Michael Korda

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Kanye West

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I worn him

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Rick Carlisle

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

Roger Baldwin

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

Gideon Ezra

She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Chris Cornell

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Diane Ravitch

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Dennis Prager

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Denis Kearney

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Denis Diderot

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.