Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth George

Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive need to keep this in mind. To aim for lofty literature instead of aiming for a good story with real characters who grow and develop and a setting that's brought to life is... like putting the varnish on the canvas first.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

Jean Chatzky

Do you have an emergency fund? If not, build one - aim for three months of expenses to start, then boost it to six. It will ease your anxiety and get you out of a potential jam.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

The terrorists' aim is to embarrass and humiliate the government of Indonesia.

Stuart Rose

The thing about London is that it is a hotbed of new and exciting talent. We don't aim to compete on a like-for-like basis, we aim to do what we can do best.

Jack Bruce

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

Some Western North Carolina farmers who have been selling commodity crops are not pleased with the prices they've been getting. Many are now looking for new markets and new ways to diversify their income, control the price they get for what they grow, and stay in farming. We are fortunate in Western North Carolina because we have many family farms and a community of people and businesses that wants locally grown food. This conference aims to give farmers the skills they need to reach these markets successfully.

So much came out of Chicago, it feels like Chicago should be the second city for a permanent booth, and I'd love to see either a booth or the Airstream to travel neighborhood to neighborhood. That's what we're going to aim for, ... North Side, South Side, all around the town. Can't you just see it? The potential is endless.

Sometimes it might feel like a bit of a drag, but ultimately, you're doing what you love, living the dream, and it's what you've been aiming for your whole life. You don't know how long it's going to last, so you have to enjoy it while it's here.

Prakash Karat

The steps taken by the EC are not conducive to cheap modes of campaigning. We consider this contrary to the aim of widening democratic participation.

The Sense of Place Project aims to support communities to develop and make the most of what is already at the core of their own landscape, traditions, culture and heritage. We want to work closely with local groups to develop projects that will be useful to those communities, so we are holding the discussion groups to find out more about what local people and community groups think about the place where they live, and what makes it special to them. In other words, what gives them a 'sense of place'.

The small multiplexes have created a market for different kinds of cinema and the new generation filmmakers are aiming to cash in on the educated, well-groomed audience who go there to watch films.

The show will aim to drive home the famous Buffett tenants of long-term, value-oriented investing in companies with proven track records.

The budget undertone will be positive ... and there will be an upbeat message to aim for 10 percent growth in three years.

Vlado Buckovski

A time is coming when the relations of the two countries should be crowned with economic cooperation, which is the aim of this business forum.

As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 percent of the total.

As leader I aim for nothing less than to inspire our party members and the wider public with a new vision of what a Liberal Britain would be like.

That's what we were aiming for. If we win that game, then we are the best team in the Maritimes.

Jesse Garcia

That's what I was aiming for (the school record).

Michael Mann

That's nonsense -- we are not favoring anybody. We are aiming for the most reasonable and sensible system.

We will be continuing this training and consider giving financial assistance to some projects. Though the aim is not to give financial assistance, it is to show that people can do a lot of things without much money. We need to get youth more interested in life.

Mark Anderson

This Vipers team is going places. We've got a lot of new players coming in and the aim is to get out of Midlands Four next season. I'm very upbeat about the future.

What is noticeable from the moves of the administration is that they are merely concerned with short-term responses that aim to elicit short-term public approval. Why is it that the oil monopolies and their profits remain untouchable? Why is it that the oil deregulation law remains untouchable?

John Terry

We got a telling-off at halftime and were much better in the second half. Our main aim before the game was to get a good start and keep their confidence low, but they got a lift and we didn't get out of first gear at all.

Otto Rehhagel

We cannot score many goals in every match, our aim is to play with a strong defence, which we have not done so well in recent games. We must keep a clean sheet and make the best of the opportunities created.

I urge the believers not to attack innocent civilians and not to fall for American plots that aim to divide us, ... We are passing through a critical period and a political process.

I urge the believers not to attack innocent civilians and not to fall for American plots that aim to divide us, ... We are passing through a critical period and a political process.

Dean Wilson

The wind is blowing hard so it's tough out there. You either hit a hard drive down right down the center or take it over the water and trust it. That's the part that the wind makes it tough, where you have to aim outside of the fairways and things and it changed the landing areas you're used to.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

The Russians, I think, clearly delivered a message consistent with the Quartet aims and the Quartet statement.

The rural phone companies do not face the same pressure as other telecoms. Competition from AT&T and cable isn't impacting things as much. It's better for investors to aim toward the hinterlands.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

I've never met a designer who thought more like an animator than Carlos. He's always thinking not just 'how will this look,' but 'how will it move.' That may seem like the obvious aim of designing for animation, but very few people have that gift.