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.

Denise Hakim

Life is not about getting the easy in. Things happen in life for a reason. What makes you confident is knowledge and getting an education.

Julie Matheny

Mac and Kelsey, they can stroke it pretty well. They're very confident shooters, as any good shooter should be.

Cory Lidle

Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 in their last five. We're confident that we can do our part. But we're depending on another team to step up.

Rosabeth Kanter

Leaders deliver confidence, that's what they do. They make decisions, they set strategy, they do all the technical stuff, but they also have to make people feel confident that their efforts will pay off.

Brad Stuart

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

Peter Taylor

Leroy is very, very dangerous in the penalty area, and he knows how to take a goal. He is a confident boy.

Brian Finneran

Matt's been confident since he showed up here, he's had control of the huddle, in practice, in training camp. In the games he's played in, he's always been confident in his ability.

Matt Hasselbeck

No disrespect at all, ... but we expected to win this game. I've been on teams and gone in places where I'm not sure everyone felt that way. We're more confident than we've ever been.

Dorothy Moore

No one can guarantee me anything. I am much older and much sicker than I was when I had the first transplant, but I am confident in my doctors and confident that I will find a donor.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Tony Blair

Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.

Kerry Carr

My expectations for the weekend were always held in check. I had never seen the team perform.

Alafair Burke

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Cy Alexander

I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.

Craig Jones

She was in a position of trust as a public servant, so we held her to a higher standard than we normally would.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Alan Ackerman

Traders and investors feel more comfortable with the value sector of the market, ... What we're seeing is a two-tiered market.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Charles Spurgeon

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Portis

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Olson

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Dennis Prager

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.