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.

James Blanchard

Mr. Harper's hit a home run. Wilson's the quintessential Canadian - thoughtful, reserved but very strong.

Andrew Pyle

May delivered another dose of unexpected strength in Canadian job creation.

Alex Campbell

Mechanization or industrialization of this sort has really only left man with one all-important mission in life: to conquer nature.

Robert Bourassa

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Shane Doan

Obviously you want to be on the team but there's at least 100 Canadian players that could easily be on that team. The group making the selections will have a tough decision on a lot of guys.

Andrea Martin

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Donald Sutherland

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

Tommy Chong

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

Tommy Chong

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

Zack Nixon

We know we are in for some tough competition. But, today we showed that if we play our ?A'-game, we can compete with anybody.

Rick LeBeau

Like athletes, you have to be completely dedicated to compete at this elite level.

Simon Maughan

Macquarie prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Macquarie in effect is run as a series of competing businesses. At times the management encourages different teams to compete for the same assets. They see it as healthy.

Cindy Snead

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Nancy Clark

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

Dan Hartleb

Minnesota is always a quality club. They have very good pitching and are solid defensively. They are similar to us, but they do have a little more experience than us. Yet, I expect us to be able to compete very well with them.

Tim Corbin

Much like David, Wade was a proven player right away. He's about as competitive a guy as you will face. I haven't seen him since we played them last year, but that doesn't matter. That kid knows how to pitch, he knows how to compete and he's a winner.

Gary Tague

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Dwight Howard

Maybe we're not mentally ready for a playoff series right now. But physically, I think we can compete with any team.

Zen Saying

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

Paul Merrick

Momentum traders will not want to sell -- if this month's trajectory continues, then gold will be at $568 by year-end and $649 by the end of February.

Rob Hammond

My lip will hurt but the gold medal is there forever.

Patti Brooks

One Olympics in person is enough in my lifetime, thank you. They're not going to get any better than they were in Lake Placid (where Herb's team won the gold medal).

Bible Bible

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

Bible Bible

Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

David Williams

Maybe it's just the old golden rule: Treat someone else the way you'd like to be treated.

Tom Rasmussen

When heights increase, you are making gold for owners of the property. The question is: How much of that gold will be shared with the public?

Joseph Garcia

She was icing her left ankle; that's all I know right now. We'll see how she is in practice on Sunday.

Doris Roberts

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.

Eric Boyle

We've had such a tremendous year and we want to put some icing on that cake.

Rob Edelblute

A trophy would have been icing on the cake.

Joe Macri

We had the recipe that we needed to win tonight. We just didn't put the icing on the top.

Lee Womack

I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake.

Bob Herman

That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the icing.

Keith Klestinski

That was unbelievable. For us to win those sprint relays was really special. To set records was the icing on the cake.

Fred Couples

Annika surprised us all. That was icing on the cake.

Gracie Gold

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Simon Clegg

The problem is you can't predict where that medal will come from. You have to make that investment.

Donna Thompson

The quality of the wines is excellent, and many individuals have won medals for the wines produced from kits.

Magdalena Neuner

I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Kirsty Balfour

To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.

Kim Yuna

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Michaela Dorfmeister

Today, I won the first medal for Austria. This time we are favorites.

Svetlana Zhurova

He is now with my sister and I have been away for too long. So this medal is for him. For my little boy.

Daron Rahlves

I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.