Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah MacLean

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.

Sara Ramirez

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

Sara Ramirez

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

Sara Sheridan

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

Sarah Shahi

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

Sarah Shahi

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

Rowan Atkinson

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

Ranbir Kapoor

I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

Robert C. Solomon

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

Robert Boyle

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Robert Adamson

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

Robert Doisneau

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Rick Yancey

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

Rick Yancey

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.

The data suggests that China's appetite for imported alumina continues unabated despite domestic alumina capacity increases, which are now expected to add around 2.2 million tons to Chinese alumina production this year.

The data released today by the Bureau of Meteorology adds to a huge body of scientific research that shows we no longer live in a natural climate.

Mike Moran

The decisions with regard to advertising was a business decision.

The decision of the government to approve an additional 3000 housing units is a clear statement that this is the policy of strengthening the settlement blocs,

The decision is to be adopted by the court of law in line with current legislation.

The decision distorts the First Amendment by exhibiting hostility toward student speech, ... This decision will interject additional confusion into the area of protected religious expression in the schools. The opinion blurs the distinction between government speech and private speech. It is the free speech of the students that has been censored.

The defendants want you to believe the money they raised went for charity. But your common sense tells you that does not add up.

The defendants are relying on a statute of limitations that applied to the Memphis board of adjustment that went out of existence 35 years ago. We believe that statute does not apply. The Tennessee legislature specifically enacted a 60 day statute of limitations that applies to boards and commissions and that statute of limitations should apply to this board.

The defendant himself admitted to detectives he was the one that pulled the trigger.

The defendant has admitted that he took part in a heinous, cowardly and hate-motivated crime that left a young man seriously injured,

The defendant had something else, though, a secret. He had an addiction to prescription drugs.

Daniel Boorstin

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is a major threat to their personal data. IBM believes that the environment has shifted - with increased security protection on most systems and stiffer penalties, we are seeing organized, committed, and tenacious profiteers enter this space. This means that attacks will be more targeted and potentially damaging. Organizations around the world - from the public and private sectors - must move quickly and work together to address this growing challenge.

The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation. It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy.

B. F. Skinner

The Department of Defense continues to consult with the Department of Justice on this litigation to include additional legal options,

The department believes we have carefully considered advantages and disadvantages to consolidating child welfare service offices in West Hawaii. We have assessed that relocation and consolidation is necessary to improve the supervision and management of the staff and enhance the highest quality of service to provide to the families.

The Democratic Party is like an addict. They're addicted to failure.

Michelle Phillips

The demand for services available through the Senior and Disabled Clearing Assistance Program has more than doubled in the past twelve months. In order to continue to provide these services until additional grant funding is received, we need the community's support.