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.

Annika Sorenstam

Luckily I had a little cushion, and at the end it seemed like I needed it, ... For me, a win is a win. I thought I played excellent the first two days. It's a tough golf course and a lot of things are shaping up for the end of year. So this meant a lot to me.

David Hilal

Let's not ignore the fundamental course of business.

Brian Henson

Lew Grade told my dad, I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be a big hit,' ... The show had definitely not run its course when my dad decided to end the show. My dad just liked doing a lot of stuff. He was so full of stuff he wanted to do.

Salvador Carranza

Many of the issues are very sensitive of course for the people. They generally don't want to talk about them a lot because of the confidentiality.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used and is still using in the course of my life journey.

Barry Scheck

Miss Woodward has always taken the course that would vindicate her and prove her innocent.

Mark McCutchen

Mr. Eaton either doesn't know what he's talking about, he's being deceptive, or a combination of both. Of course Clarksville could have hedged last spring for this past winter, that's the way we do business." ()

Roberto Azevedo

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

John Reid

My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward.

Marco Brambilla

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Steve Jobs

Motorola did the phone. I could imagine other products in the future.

Brian Dawkins

Mentally, I just can't imagine what he's going through right now. But he's tough. He's going to push through this. I'm sure he'll do whatever it takes to get back.

Jan Block

No one ever says I CAN imagine losing two sons. They always say they CAN'T imagine losing two children.

Ken Warwick

One, we don't need to these days. There's a queue from the record companies, as you can probably imagine because we have 30 million people-plus each week tune in, and so we don't need to go hunting, as it were.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Zach Lund

Never in a million years did I imagine that it could be used for something else that was not legal.

Debbie Gibson

I can't even imagine seeing someone else. I've never had any problems at all. He's been wonderful.

Lisa Fernandez

I can't even imagine not being in the same state, the same city, as him.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Clementa C. Pinckney

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Finding Nemo

Seagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Nigel: Oh would you just shut up? You're rats with wings.

Julie Foudy

I got underneath the sheets to go to sleep, ... and there's a 'W sign. Oh well. Cat's a minister's daughter. And she's from the south.

Robert W. Service

I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the model's seat, And I painted her sitting there.

Terry Zwigoff

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.

Jean Brown

Oh yeah, we've been celebrating here. Shirts for every child. Oh, we've been partying,

Curt Dobbs

Oh yeah. We got back to reality real quick.

Daniel Cabrera

Oh yeah, just muscles, ... It hurt, but I'm okay.

Al Horford

Oh yeah. If you forget, they make you run for those.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Dennis Prager

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

Dennis Prager

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Deniece Schofield

Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Denis Diderot

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Jeffrey Benjamin

More important than what you did yesterday is what you do today.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Charles Spurgeon

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Deniece Schofield

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Denis Johnson

That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dionne Warwick

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.