Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Robuchon

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

John Smoltz

My control shouldn't be an issue. I've been down this road so many times before. Adrenaline is going to be incredible at this time. ... The issue's going to be will I be able to come out from the start and contain that adrenaline?

John Smoltz

My control shouldn't be an issue, ... I've been down this road so many times before. Adrenaline is going to be incredible at this time. ... The issue's going to be will I be able to come out from the start and contain that adrenaline?

My concerns have been and continue to be more from a standpoint of addressing those broader issues around infrastructure - roads, schools, fire and emergency. We've made some inroads in those areas, but we have a lot more work to do to get to where I'll feel comfortable saying we've made some progress.

Eric Turner

My concern is when we start adding headcount, ... We're saying with a few tickets here and a few tickets there, we're going to make up (their salaries and benefits.) I have a concern about that.

Ross Levinsohn

My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.

John Ford

My concern has to do with adequate protection for me and my family and what should have been done--what he should do as a responsible father,

Charles E. Wilson

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

John Desmond Bernal

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

Larry Charles

I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.

Lorrie Moore

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

Lorrie Moore

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Kim Cattrall

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

Katherine Parkinson

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

Karen Maitland

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Karen Joy Fowler

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

Karen Traviss

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

Kage Baker

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Kara Lindsay

I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'