Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Elizabeth Thornton

Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.

Michael Wilson

We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage.

Tom Shales

Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.

Erin O'Connor

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.

Mandy Patinkin

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

David Whyte

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

Marlon Wayans

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

Tom Rath

Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

Charles Schumer

When was the last time that a covert agent's name was leaked, jeopardizing that agent's life, the life of that agent's network, of informants and the security of this country? ... This is not just another ordinary leak.

William Shakespeare

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides

Jo Handelsman

There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility toward women

Gail Carriger

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

Jen Lancaster

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

Denny Griffin

They did overt and covert surveillance. In some cases, they wanted them to know they were being followed.

Matt Cooper

This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status.

Paul Watson

I've known Jonathan for years, and I see no indication that he would ever go about things in a covert way.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Summers

Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.

T. S. Eliot

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Mark Cuban

When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Chloe Sevigny

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.