Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Kristof

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Bea Arthur

I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.

Derek Hough

I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.

Lauren Weisberger

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Caitlin Moran

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

Dave Foley

There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation.

Dave Foley

There aren't many opportunities for celebrities to do promotion that doesn't involve five-minute anecdotes about a crazy vacation. You really see them being themselves.

John Audubon

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

Michael Moskow

I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,

Doug Macdonald

Legislators and voters confirmed that they are willing to invest in highway improvements to help alleviate traffic bottlenecks and enhance safety.

Kofi Annan

Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,

Norm Coleman

senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid.

Saint Stephen

May those who witness the miracle be confirmed in their faith, and may you and your idols be forever disgraced!

John Cornyn

no obligation to tell us how you will rule on any issue that might come before you if you're confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Justin Pitts

One thing that I have learned lately is that every second of the day has an influence on the rest of your life; so get out there and use your God-given abilities to His glory. The Lord has really confirmed that now is the time He wanted to use me.

Claude Puel

Now we must confirm our progress in our next match.

Jay Haines

Obviously, the savings vary depending on the home's location, as well as its construction type, its orientation to the sun, surrounding shade features and so forth. But the DOE tests confirmed a measurable and significant difference in the energy required to cool the home in all instances.

Bill Taylor

What I can confirm is that a serious allegation has been made and that we are investigating it vigorously, and that we have reported the allegations to appropriate state authorities.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Tim Fletcher

F--- the effects, plug in and feel something.

Greg Ryan

We ship it in 240-gallon totes that can plug right into their processing lines,

Willie McGinest

Having him back helps. I don't know if he can plug all the holes, but it'll help.

Jim Gray

Did they pull the plug on us in a way that I just think is despicable? Absolutely.

George Foster

We should do OK. We need to stick to what we know, keep plugging and see what happens.

Paul Davies

We've still got it. We've just got to get that spark plug going into March. We've done it before.

Andy Reid

Can we plug somebody else in there and still win Super Bowls? Yeah, absolutely, we feel that way.

Lesley Stahl

They pulled the plug on you, what you wanted to say.

Jeff Segall

A third tower would plug right in. We would already have connections for utilities and everything.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Dennis Prager

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Henry Blake

One of the worst days. One of the very worst.

Peter Laviolette

Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.

Bob Baffert

For some reason, this is the worst one I've ever felt,

Dirk Benedict

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Eddie Locascio

I didn't want to think the worst had happened, but ....

Walter Kirn

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'