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.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

Susan Ferguson

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Scott Martin

Many householders are guilty of buying new clothes in the sales which will never get worn.

Jeff Cole

Several trends about online buying continue to develop -- especially regarding credit card security -- that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce.

Linda Sherry

Sending people a check is a totally deceptive way to sell a product. If you want to sell a product, send a nice brochure explaining why it's a good deal. You shouldn't have to trick people into buying it.

Carl Tobias

Sensenbrenner has been tough and stuck to his guns on past occasions. Maybe buying time will help.

Jeff Schuster

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Look, there is a fine line here between freedom of expression and going out and encouraging people to hurt this city. Defacing subway cars is hardly a joke.

Adam Sieminski

Let's get the high-consuming cars off the road, start paying for them and recycle them -- put them in a crusher.

James Meeks

Many of those cars will eventually be sold to another individual.

Rep. Ayres

Many of them don't have cars or transportation to get to facilities in the counties where they are allowed.

Brian France

Many of the cars are made here in the U.S., and they're very much in the fabric of the culture here today, Any American make .....

Scott Stauffer

Several cars that were going by waved at us, ... It was a nice gesture. And when we were going down in our convoy, a guy on a motorcycle gave us a thumbs-up - every vehicle. It made us feel like we were doing something good.

Christopher Macgowan

So far this year the market has suffered from two things; firstly a surge in demand for diesel cars distorting the market at the end of 2005 and secondly weaker consumer confidence.

Chris Dyson

Max Crawford has been working with Dyson Racing since the early nineties. He is a valued member of the extended Dyson racing family. It was an honor for me to give the Crawford Race Cars its first win in 2002. Their team knows how to win and we learned a lot in a short period of time working together last year.

Jac Nasser

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford put the world on wheels. The new Ford Motor Co. will put the Internet on wheels. We will do nothing short of transforming cars and trucks into portals.

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Farooq Kathwari

I had one in my office for a year and tested them in some friends' houses to make sure it worked.

Susan Lyne

She has lived in many homes. She has made houses and a lifestyle her life's work.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Luke Evans

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Peter Jackson

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

Mitt Romney

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

Yadira Gomez

We didn't really think we were going to win. We went around to look at the other houses and there were pretty nice houses out there.

Suriyasai Katasila

The regime has turned parliament into the houses of relatives.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Clive Barker

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Eisenberg

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.