Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Carruth

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Loretta Young

One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen.

Bill Alexander

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

Jim Crace

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Chuck Smith

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Phil Klay

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Stephen Marley

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No, I don't. Well, I mean, she's here, she's a presence, but we haven't been able to have a conversation.

Tom Renney

We had a very professional conversation. It was not any kind of confrontation, it was just sharing thoughts.

Andy Cole

When I have a conversation with anybody, I do look deep into them,

Daniel Portman

I'm a point of conversation for my friends.

John Hopkins

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

Skip Bertman

Fresno State is one of the top teams we're looking at. I think our last conversation with them was pretty positive, but I wouldn't say it's done until ESPN finishes talking with them. We need ESPN to cooperate and pay them some money.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Maria Semple

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.