Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron DeHaven

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Gregg Thompson

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Melanie Hall

She's been the glue. She's always doing the little things crashing the boards, making the big stop, setting the screen that gets the girl open. I can't say enough about her.

Paul Baca

Nobody expected us to be here, crashing the party. It's hard for me to express in words right now how proud I am of these girls. I'm especially proud of the seniors. When they were sophomores they went through a particularly hard season and stuck with it. Now, two years later, they're in the Sweet 16. It's a special group of seniors.

Chris Leshinski

Girls were crashing nets, (making) good crosses and we were able to finish.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're part of this. You might as well get used to this. There are some new people in town, and you'll hopefully welcome us with open arms.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're all part of a new league and you might as well get used to this.

Steve Adlard

He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.

Marilyn Oliveira

If it's a large venue where there are multiple rooms and events happening at once, crashing is more likely to happen. Crashers are often dressed appropriately already, so it happens more easily.

Peter Lerangis

I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

David Bowie

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Alan Rickman

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Akshay Kumar

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Chris Cooper

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Brown

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Abani

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Dan Scott

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Philip Rivers

When it's all over -- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid-January -- then I can just play out every scenario in my head.

Rich Glas

We didn't make enough plays. That's been the scenario of our season.

Lucrecia Tam

This is a worse scenario than we had anticipated.

James Blake

Every different scenario was going through my head,

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Jamie Kritzer

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.