Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

Jeff Goodell

Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.

Patti Smith

We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.

Gregory Asner

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

Jim Lee

Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess.

John Grisham

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

Candice Millard

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Edan Lepucki

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

Edan Lepucki

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

Kathryn Reith

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

Tom Cappel

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Joel Berg

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

Dan Murphy

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

Randy Blach

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Tom Lyons

We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.

Michael Korda

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Mark Martinez

I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Graeme Simsion

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Michael Polzin

We have to follow the law. We don't have a choice in this matter.

Saudi Arabia

We have no other choice. Those who say nothing create the impression that they secretly want to see the prophet be insulted.

Jeff Ulbrich

We have no other choice but to stay positive. We have no other choice.

Frank Maloney

We have no choice but to pull Scott out. I am hoping that the fight can be rescheduled for later in the month but I just don't know what the prospects of that happening are at the moment.

Dan Kelly

We have no choice but to pick up what the state has refused to fund,

Dennis Davin

We have no choice but to initiate foreclosure.

Clinton Solomon

We have no choice but to get ready. We've got to take strides everyday in practice.

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Trevor Bayliss

We've seen he's still got the goods on this tour and he'll be able to choose the timing of his departure.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

Ashwin Sanghi

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Rebecca Jones

We've seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

Ellen Gilchrist

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

Keeley Hawes

I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.

Italo Calvino

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Brad Goreski

When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear exists. But Calvin Klein makes them. Commando makes them. Hanky Panky makes them. You don't need a drawer full; a few pairs will suffice.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Clint Hill

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

David Harrison

We went through cupboards, files and drawers and turned up some extraordinary information about relations between Iraq and Moscow,

Margaret Anderson

We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.

Toots Thielemans

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

Greg Steinhoff

We've always been looking, everywhere we can, to find money for the life sciences.

Jeff McCracken

We're in good shape. The system's working everywhere it should. This is a wet storm, but there's not a lot of snow to melt like there was in '96-'97." ()

Peter Johnston

There is no question, ... everywhere is getting warmer.

Tyga

I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.

Friedrich List

liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns

Carl Sandburg

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere

Max Schneider

I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

Billy Gardner

We've seen it before and we didn't want to quit on an inning. It gives us momentum but the momentum is only as good as your starter taking the mound.

Scott Walton

The process also gives us an opportunity to get demographics and meet the people that we are serving.

Abby Wambach

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

Laurie Geigel

The production gives you a real life simulation. You've got to trust each other and get it done. It's not a typical 'work hard, study and get a grade' class.

Travis Bradberry

Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

David Krumholtz

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

Jiang Zemin

liberating their thoughts and seeking truth from facts.

Etgar Keret

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Diane Paulus

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Annie Leibovitz

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Paulo Coelho

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

William Andrews

We used to watch a lot of movies,

Taylor Handley

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

Tom Irwin

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Terry Hayes

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Ehren Kruger

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Eiza Gonzalez

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

Steve Burke

People have more options to watch quality, professionally produced video than ever before, and they are using those options - whether it is DVR, Netflix or Hulu.

Adam Sandler

I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,

Penelope Mitchell

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

Famke Janssen

Netflix is something I watch.

Gaby Hoffmann

I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.

Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Carlos Castaneda

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Carlos Castaneda

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Carlos Castaneda

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Alan Sugar

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Charles Taze Russell

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Gil Gutknecht

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Jensen Ackles

I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

Mark Perry

We all kind of have our regional focuses, but this pretty much pulls together everybody.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

Lyn Jones

Heineken rugby pulls up a lot of surprises, it's testing for all and we're not downhearted,

Larry Rothschild

If he pulls something, even though it's not the spot where we're concentrating on, it could set him back too far. We probably did the right thing.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Dennis Miller

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

Howard Schultz

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

Howard Schultz

The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

Eoin Colfer

Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

Katee Sackhoff

I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when Im in Starbucks.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Jason Bateman

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Al Roker

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Katie Holmes

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.

Chris Stapleton

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

Larry David

I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.