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.

John Abraham

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

Michael Wilson

We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage.

Beckie Scott

I did have a brief flash of 'Oh no, not now, not here.' In a way it was a huge setback. It meant a little extra double poling for me at the start of my leg. But fortunately ... it wasn't insurmountable.

Malcolm Wilson

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Andrew Barbour

I have every intention of going around to more groups, ... I also intend to brief legislators on various levels.

Kacey Musgraves

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Marc Guggenheim

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.

Ren Zamora

Motorola's results did not just surpass our estimates, consensus, and management guidance, these 1Q 04 numbers were downright huge.

Callum Blue

When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

Sylvester Croom

We were horrible. It was downright awful. I don't know how good we are, but we're a whole lot better than we were last year.

Christian Winthrop

This shows that Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate. It doesn't look good for someone who's running for U.S. Senate. In fact, it's downright embarrassing.

Rob McKittrick

At 20, waiting tables is a great job, but at 24 it's not so great, and at 27, it's downright sobering.

Pat Burns

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Matt Baker

The time and effort he put into it was downright impressive.

Lord Byron

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

Scott Stewart

I think this is downright silly. It's completely unnecessary and expensive.

Tom Shannon

No one likes a pay cut, but the fact of the matter is employment is paramount.

Bill Cheney

Next week's employment report will be a much more important piece of new information.

Denis Healey

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We need a policy framework which will hold whatever party is in power so there will be peace, prosperity and plenty of employment opportunities,

Alan Blinder

One of the reasons for all the happy faces in retail this holiday shopping season is that gas prices are going down, down, down. Employment and income are doing well.

Albert Dunlap

If we guarantee employment for some, we jeopardize employment for everyone.

Tom Tancredo

If we can stop the employment of people who are here illegally, a huge part of this problem goes away.

Linda Howard

I have found employment documentation that was totally falsified -- that includes pay stubs and W2s,

Christopher Thornberg

We have lots of new employees. It's just not showing up in the employment statistics.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Dizzy Dean

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Andrew Neff

Six of the seven last years, technology stocks have been weak around that time period. June, July has usually been around a bottom.

Lauren Willig

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Carl Sagan

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st

Niambi Rowland

We'll be going back on the show July 12.

Chelsea Handler

A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

Neil Abbott

What he does come July 1 is wide open at this point.

Lee Schlesinger

Yes, absolutely. That's the way the officer will measure it starting July 1.

David Amram

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.