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.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Henry Chan

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

Fawaz Gerges

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

Ignacio Bunye

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Tom Bodett

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

David Hewson

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Banksy

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

Arthur Peacocke

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,