Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Schmidt

We were attacking their man-to-man well, and they're mostly a man-to-man team. Their zone gave us problems. We didn't attack it right. Their zone beat us.

Steve Howard

There is a lot more attacking (in the wishbone) than in the I.

Al Thornton

We settled for a lot of jump shots. As soon as we got an opening, got a little daylight, we settled for jump shots. We pulled up instead of attacking the paint.

Elliott Abrams

Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.

Doug Galloway

We started shooting better and started attacking offensively and defensively.

Ann Cooper

We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.

Burt Ward

There are some constant complainers in this neighborhood, who are unfairly attacking (the center) because of my notoriety,

Michael Ashcroft

We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.

Lawrence Bender

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Glen Davis

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

Dana Hill

I know all the critics.

Twyla Tharp

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

William Shakespeare

For I am nothing if not critical.

Beverly Sills

Don't get me started on critics.

Lord Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Richard Boucher

We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Frank Clarke

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.

Mack Brown

We'd like for those two guys to get settled and started and learn the offense before they are criticized.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism, ... We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Richard Adams

There is no doubt, Mr. Quillen is a dedicated leader.

Trace Devanny

The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered.

Kirsten Gillibrand

A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.

Emmett Hanger

We've got a start on this, but we need to come up with a dedicated funding source to ensure that we'll be able to do this for the long term.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Doug Harvey

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.

Brian Cowen

We are all dedicated to getting these institutions back up and running as quickly as possible,

Caryn Jeffreys

She has just been continually dedicated to every show. She's always participating and helpful.

Holly Tachovsky

She knew her job had risks but she was dedicated to it. Not that we know it had anything to do with it.

Diane Wakoski

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Austin O'Malley

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Bill Nye

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Bill Walsh

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Bill Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

Carlos Ghosn

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

Alan Thicke

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Charles Dickens

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Susan B. Anthony

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Be the Woman You Want to Be....

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Diane von Furstenberg

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

John Arquilla

They're not using satellite phones. They're using Web sites and posing as teenage girls.

Rod Stewart

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Alan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Robert Bennett

I am subject to expulsion if I divulge anything that is going on.

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Bill Condon

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Barton Gellman

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.