Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Elon Musk

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

Jennifer Lawrence

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Craig Bruce

It pointed out to me that there was a problem.

Joe Jamail

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Richard Carmona

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,

Pete Carroll

This is the time of year that we've pointed toward. It's happened, and it's at the Rose Bowl, and it just can't get any better for the USC Trojans.

Daniel Yergin

This has been pointed out ... even in thrillers.

Carol Leifer

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

Charles de Lint

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles de Lint

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles de Lint

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Devon Sawa

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Devon Sawa

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

David Krumholtz

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

Dave Barry

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava flows destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

David Talbot

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.