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.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Connie Baker

We can't let it go because it's escalated. It's like an epidemic right now.

Dennis Kucinich

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Michael Thun

Women started smoking seriously 25 years ago, and the lag time for this epidemic has kicked in.

Lyle Petersen

We're still on the upslope of the epidemic curve.

Jack Richardson

We've got an epidemic up here of underage kids getting booze.

Kurt Vonnegut

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Greg Poland

What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Ron Redmond

From a global perspective, refugee is a neutral term.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Nicholas Burns

If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Shelden Williams

Maybe he's thinking too much about his shot and his moves, but I don't see that happening in the Tournament. I think he'll be re-motivated and be the player he has been for us.

Stella Maeve

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

Eddie Wood

From my standpoint, I just wanted to come down here and run what we were supposed to run without anything happening to the race car,

Irene Smith

If anything is going on, it will be happening on that day.

Sharon Smith

When we saw her come in, I thought, it's not real. It can't be happening to her.

Eric Zastoupil

I was frozen. There was nothing else happening for a moment there.

Jacques Rossouw

I wouldn't worry about the headlines today. There's something happening here. If we persist a little longer, we'll nail it.

Lawrence Lindsey

Because of what's happening in Asia, we are unlikely to see an acceleration of inflation,

Roger McGuinn

I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Dasha Zhukova

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Brian Sutherby

Obviously, you want to play in the highest league possible, which is the NHL.

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt, and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I think that's probably the highest score I could have for the way I'm playing.

Pete Williams

NBA teams, which take between 25 and 30 road trips, incur the highest cost, about $2 million a team.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Jim Johnson

To be a part of that night was the highest point of my life.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

We are looking at tourists as gods. If Japanese people come to India, we treat them as gods.

Guillaume Salluste

My lovely living Boy,My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.

Kelly Shackelford

Newspapers are embarrassing themselves and showing themselves to be irrelevant; it shows people living in two different worlds.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Christy Turlington

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Andrea Roth

When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.

John Abraham

If they're living in the past, they're living in the past.

Ken Bowersox

If they need us to stay a year, that's fine. We like living on the space station, and we feel comfortable that we have a way home.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know who wrote that, but it's bull. You can quote me on that. Just like I was run out of St. Louis, that's ... people make a living on speculation. They're an embarrassment to the media.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

Jennifer Anderson

Those are the most successful people if they go to a class. When they come and just want to do a machine, sometimes the longevity isn't as much.

Chad Knaus

We've got longevity to stay here and do whatever it is we need to do to win the championship. That's something a lot of places don't have.

Aries Spears

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Alonzo Mourning

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Julia Child

(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.

Gary Grant

I would like to think that Congressman Leach's longevity is attributed to his thoughtful, intelligent representation of his constituents.

Scott DeJong

It's a tribute to the success and longevity of his career.

H. Hart

soon realize they're out there spraying at daybreak. They're out there picking at night (under lights), and it's costing them more than they're getting out of it. That's not the type of vineyard longevity I'm looking for.

Ray Ferrara

You might want to take an annuity if you have super longevity in your family.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Alexey Miller

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships.

Lisa Rickard

Obesity is a very serious problem. It's not going to be solved in the courtroom.

Gelett Burgess

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Morgan Spurlock

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Ogden Nash

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Mary Austin

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

Tom Vilsack

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Lewis Mumford

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Elbert Hubbard

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Deepak Chopra

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

David Nicholls

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.