Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grover Cleveland

Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency.

Anthony Romero

Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Winston Churchill

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Charles Rangel

Some of you know I've been reported as saying Eliot Spitzer is one of the smartest people in the world, if not the smartest. It takes a lot of political courage to reach out and make an independent decision.

Joddie Gleason

Our team really stepped up tonight and showed a lot courage to take it to them like that.

John Burns

Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union; take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day.

Bill Cosby

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Madonna Madonna

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

Al Gore

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Kerry Bishe

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Kevin Rose

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

Dean Koontz

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Lennart Nilsson

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Christopher Darden

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Daymond Langkow

Recently in the last month or so, offensively we've seemed to find a groove and we've been better. We've finally got something going and we just want to keep it going and contribute.

Mike Woodson

Our locker room is very excited. I think any time you play this team (Boston), they're well-coached. They've got a lot of offensive weapons. For us to come in and play a solid game, and finally finish a game, (is satisfying) because we've been playing pretty well as of late.

Darcie Breidel

People have big smiles on their faces, and we're glad winter is finally back.

Jeff Knoy

Our game plan was to sag back inside and let them shoot the 3. And they didn't shoot it well at all in the first half. In the second half, they finally got hot.

Chris Walton

I was just talking about that with some of my friends. We're finally having fun again.

Jerramy Stevens

I think so. We're finally getting that respect we've been wanting all year.

James Comey

KSM was unsure what operation they would finally pursue,

Keri Spanbauer

Kohl's has been in turnaround mode for quite a while, and that's finally kicking in. There's been good reception for some of their new brands.

Chris Richard

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked.

Kristin Chenoweth

Reese said she was really sad she didn't get to see me do Wicked . All of our friends say we are the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

Abdoulaye Wade

States have no friends, they only have interests.

Georg Cantor

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

Randy Thomasson

Our friends' weak language has stumbled and fallen.

Abdullah Gul

Our friendly relationship of mutual understanding with the United States will go on, ... One should not limit it to a motion.

Z. Sheppard

Our credo is friendship. It's the comradeship, more than anything else, that I enjoy.

Gary Asay

Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.

James Gomez

Playing three sports he made a lot of friends. He's a popular kid on campus.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Floyd Skloot

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Alan Furst

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

David Troyer

Right now we're not saying what the reply is going to be.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.