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.

Ryan Callahan

We're not doing anything much different than we did all year. The only difference now is that it's playoffs and we're showing more commitment to the task. We're getting on them and that's what we have.

John Hennessy

Like all Americans, members of the Stanford community feel great compassion for the many who have suffered loss and a desire to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, ... We are committed to helping out in whatever way we can, and we hope these efforts will make a small contribution to the outpouring of relief to victims of this disaster.

Tom Daschle

Let us respond with the same commitment and resolve in this drought as we would with any other natural disaster.

Andy Fox

Let staff look into the participants in the committee to make sure they are diverse and make recommendations to the council.

Gordon Gee

Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention, ... Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but we intend on competing consistent with the values of a world-class university.

I. Stone

Lowe's is committed to recognizing and supporting efforts that help our neighbors and customers. No time is this support more important than following natural disasters. Since Lowe's launched its customer donation program in 2000, thanks to the generosity and cooperation of our customers and vendor partners, we have raised nearly $16 million for American Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

Bobby Dunn

Lots of people start exercising because a spouse or other person has told them they need to lose weight. But you'll only stick with it if it's your own goal, if it's something you're committed to.

Leo Kiely

Last year, we committed to a strategic review of our Brazilian business. We made good on that commitment, and this transaction is the result.

Friedrich Muller

Let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

Michael W. Smith

No one is trying to terminate employees for expressing public opinion.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Tom Reilly

When you'd come by there were more offices and people didn't know where to go. Employees can look out the window and see what's going on. Now we stop someone from standing around for 10 minutes, wondering what's going on.

Svein Riibe

Since we only had a few employees then, it was a cost-effective option for us rather than getting our own e-mail server solution.

Curtis Gray

I didn't mind talking about it. It showed there needs to be better security at convenience stores, and to the employees working the third shift an idea that it might happen to them.

Stephen Jones

I don't know which employees he's been talking to - I suspect the senior managers on generous severance packages. This is the wrong plan for Telstra and the wrong plan for Australia.

Ian Morrison

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Lance Armstrong

four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.

Robert Ballard

So, I'm able to network experts on demand, when I need them.

Nina Easton

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Tony Fadell

There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.

Cathy Freeman

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Thuy Trang

When we are on the set, there are always experts there to choreograph the moves and improve your form so you look good for the camera.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.