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.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting and tally sheets.

Nathaniel Brazill

I can't really remember. I think I pulled out the gun. I was like checking the lock. I was already holding it, and I was fixing to drop it, and I didn't know what was going to happen if I would have dropped it. It all went from there.

Maurice Evans

I'm always ready to play, and I'm always expecting to play. Whether or not I do is another thing. When he called my name, I was kind of double checking to make sure it was me, because I didn't want to get up and then it not be me.

Gordon Anderson

I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen.

Britt Beemer

Shoppers won't just be at the mall this weekend, but they will be checking things out online. Where they find the better deal is where they might actually make the purchase.

Cliff Floyd

I don't have to do anything. Nothing. Just follow up with her and watch what I eat and drink a lot of water. There are little things you have going on that you have to monitor. I'm just happy we can move on and that we were able to get a hold of this, as far as checking myself. I'm relieved.

Ty Segall

People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Jessica Hart

When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Dennis Crowley

The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Robin Ryan

Make sure you are getting credit for what you do.

Ben Braun

Leon deserves a lot of the credit for the impact he's made. He makes a lot of things easier for a lot of guys. He's also been a really good defender for us this year. he's really improved his understanding of the game.

Ken Rosen

Low interest rates and easy credit standards are just about over.

Judy Gresser

Low-income families who file at the VITA site may qualify for a substantial Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Hud Venerable

Let's give some credit to Mattoon. They played very well.

Frank Ferraro

Let's give credit to him. He's an outstanding player.

Gregg Klein

Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this credit at current levels.

Mario Monti

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Bob Law

Mayors took credit for it. But it was the Million Man March.

Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties

Sam Brownback

Many of us have difficulty keeping up with you. ... You always set a fast pace.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,

George Fisher

Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches.

Wyndham Lewis

Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Michael Polzin

On Monday and Tuesday, we were having difficulty getting enrollment eligibility information from the government database. But by yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, our information requests were going through and we were getting the information back that we needed. For those patients, the situation has gotten a lot better.

Archibald Hill

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

Samuel Butler

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

Steve Farese

She's having difficulty staying on point. When you want to discuss an important issue with someone, you need their full attention, and right now we don't feel that she's able to give us her full attention.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Hosni Mubarak

We will take much tougher measures in the area,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Kevin Blackwell

Getting back to the Premiership will be a big test but what we have shown here is resilience. Previously we have tended to be seen as soft touches.

Nikki Fennern

From what I've seen thus far, we've got a lot of options.

Mickey Loomis

From what I've seen on TV, what we can all see, that's what you would speculate. It doesn't look very good.

Brian Palma

If anyone's been around some very long cocaine evenings, there's nothing that's in SCARFACE that we all haven't seen before.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Nicole Strasko

I got off to a slow start thinking about the game. I'm a freshman, and this was my first tournament game, and with it in the new gym, I wanted to do really good.

Rod Wright

You know what they say, don't look back. If you look back, you'll slow down, especially for big guys.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Monte Kohler

We're going to go slow and make sure he's ready.

Michael Richards

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

Sylvia Hatchell

To play slow would not be the thing to do with her.

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.