Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

Patti Smith

We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.

Robert Peck

We believe that free shipping programs, including Amazon Prime, had a much greater negative impact to Amazon's gross margins than we'd originally anticipated.

Scott Turow

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

Sundar Pichai

We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

John Grisham

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

Candice Millard

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Paul Aiken

We hope Amazon and others can make it work.

Edmund White

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Colin Channer

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

George Postolos

We stand ready to honor the bargain we struck with the sports authority, and we hope and expect that the sports authority will do the same.

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

Flip Saunders

Whether we play well or don't play well come Sunday, will have no bearing on how we've done this season. As I recall, we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season and got off to a pretty good start in the regular season.

Larry Richardson

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

Andrei Kortunov

Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.

Dennis Hastert

Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,

Ed Goren

With the hurricane bearing down on Florida, he is taking care of his family. He might still be available. With hurricanes, you never know. It might totally miss Florida, and if that happens, he will be joining us when he can.

Jarome Iginla

We knew they would raise their game and we didn't match it after they started coming at us. It's a matter that later we've got to be better. I don't know if it's bearing down more or we've got to be more disciplined, but we're going to need to change and we have to do it in a hurry.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

Bill Belichick

We're not defending anything. We're not repeating anything. Nothing that happened in the past really has any bearing on (this year). Don't get me wrong. I'm respectful of what this organization has accomplished . . . but none of that really has any bearing on anything we do.

Jerome Bettis

The outcome will have a bearing on my decision. If it is my last game, all the people that saw me start my career get an opportunity to see me end it. My career will have come full circle.

Bill Keller

I don't have dating tips.

Ed Sheeran

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

Matt Prokop

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Nicholas Haslam

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Bill Coleman

When we were dating it was in a Model A. And we've owned one ever since.

Benjamin Franklin

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Ben Affleck

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Barbra Streisand

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

S. E. Hinton

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Chris Renner

We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Camille Paglia

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

Catherynne M. Valente

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Bill Johnson

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

Bill Johnson

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Edward Albee

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

Mark Cuban

There was one person, or probably two people, that wrote reviews saying this movie should not be made,

Chris Hardwick

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

Faith Prince

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

Ian Mcewan

I often don't read reviews.

Candice Bergen

I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.