Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

Munir Akram

The outcome of the summit was not all we had hoped for. The agenda became loaded as the process went along.

Roy Blunt

What we do here is more important than who we are. We have an agenda to move forward here.

Ken Clarke

We are going to make our case to our fellow MPs, argue on the agenda that I have set out before and see how many of them think that is a package they would like to put to the party and the country.

Dick Cheney

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Carol Williams

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

Jason Klein

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Michael Ramsey

We want her on the stand. We will put in all the notes from those meetings. They'll show that (Enron) was a well-run organization and a lot of people were asking righteous questions. They demonstrate an intelligent corporation in action.

Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Marcy Forman

We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Thomas Mallon

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Sharon Stone

I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.

Kathryn Harrison

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Kristin Armstrong

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Bryant Young

We're struggling to get back to where we were years ago. It's a cycle.

Joseph Smith

We're struggling a little with that right now. We just need to keep working hard.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Jeremy Corbyn

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.