Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Jim Pedrojetti

Mike was breaking (Willis) down with left hooks to the body. Mike was throwing some really sweet combinations.

Ed Roth

None of us have gone through life without breaking things.

Dennis Christopher

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

Lars Trier

If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.

Justin Rose

I feel like I'm hopefully really on the verge of breaking through here. It would make the last two years that I spent over here pointless to go back to Europe full time this year.

Chow Fat

For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good scripts, appropriate roles and good film crews are not that easy to find. I am so lucky to have had so many chances.

Tobias Levkovich

From a technician's point of view, breaking through 1,300 was an important factor.

Jeff Hennion

From what we have seen, Steelers fans are breaking all the rules with support of the team.

Mike Williams

Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them.

Stuart Law

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

David Gilmore

Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,

Michael Driscoll

Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education,

Claire McCaskill

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Daniel Tieken

So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt.

Leo Bokeria

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Martin Jacques

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears

Jonathan Brandis

I was so young I really didn't have any real fears or hesitations about the business. It's when I got older when I realized how much it all meant.

Peter Cardillo

If we get a strong number (Friday) it could rekindle fears of another Fed tightening and that will keep investors on the defensive.

Akitsugu Bando

Basically, fears about possible higher interest rates in the near future have not been erased.

Bill Rammell

I do not think those fears are justified.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong reason to worry.

Kathleen Edwards

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

Scott Eastwood

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Robert Wilson

If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Steve Young

Luckily, you feel that way. If you really knew how long you were going to hear about how you played in the Super Bowl, how it went, no one could sleep.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Dimitri Simes

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Alan Parsons

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

David Duke

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Ben Whishaw

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

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.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

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

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Dennis Prager

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Edward Abbey

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Alexander Siddig

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.