Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Kress

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

Mo Ibrahim

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

We played a solid 14 minutes but the bottom line is you got to play 60 minutes, it's a playoff atmosphere and we've got to do a better job. We've got to play a lot better defensively in our own end.

Buzz Aldrin

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

Linda Thompson

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

The props received a lot of action. The atmosphere was terrific, and people were living and dying with every play.

Howard Bloom

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

Isco

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Vonda Shepard

Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs.

Walter Kirn

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

We do believe that it's a question of how the overall economy is faring. The atmosphere is improving, everyone's looking forward to a positive development of the economy and we do believe that the confectionary industry will benefit from this.

We definitely have some stuff to work on before districts. Being in this championship game atmosphere is going to help us though.

Jim Bishop

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

We work on that defensive pressure all the time and those steals were the result of the work of everybody on the floor. It is tough coming out here in this atmosphere and trying to come away with a win after losing the momentum in the second half.

We worked very hard to create an atmosphere where the idea was to celebrate community and cross boundaries.

Bonnie Tyler

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.

Romain Grosjean

Monaco is a very special event in its own right, and the atmosphere is quite crazy! As a driver, you have to stay calm and relaxed and try to do your job.

Patrick Modiano

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

We have these trails of electrons left behind, and the wind in the upper atmosphere causes them to drift. It pushes them one direction or another. We can measure the speed at which those electrons are drifting and infer the wind speed.

We have the offensive capability to break any game open. We knew it was going to be tough tonight. Obviously they wanted to win here, and I think it was a moral victory for us, keeping a tie and going to RFK because RFK is tough. It will be a great atmosphere and we will be ready.

John Turner

We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.

Tom Mann

Triton is a solid partner in the ATM industry. We knew they would come back stronger than ever. This speaks volumes for the top- notch products produced by a top-notch team. We look forward to a long and successful relationship with Triton.

Daniel Kessler

We all really like Montreal a lot. It has a real lively, living atmosphere - it's not squeaky clean, it's got a real grit to it, a real story.

Those who don't like the festival atmosphere might just come for the music.

We hope the experience of hosting last year helps a little this year. It's a different atmosphere and a different week leading up to the game.

Brad Childress

You always worry about kids going home to their hometowns. You don't know how they'll react. But we try to make it easy for them, and create the atmosphere that it's a business trip.

Yesterday, we didn't show up, we didn't play the way we wanted to, so we re-focused and re-prepared for the game tonight. It's a playoff atmosphere when you get to play the same team the following day with it fresh in your mind what happened the previous day.

We emphasized before the game that we couldn't let the atmosphere and early intimidation blow us out. We tried to give it away early, but the kids bounced back. We knew (the speed) was coming. You can talk about it and simulate it all you want, but you've got to deal with it on the court.

We are trying to create an atmosphere for all views to surface and all positions to be heard.

We played some decent football and the boys were in confident mood today. We also missed several opportunities, which could prove fatal on another day. On Thursday we will be under heavy pressure and the atmosphere will be different, but we must be prepared for that.

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

Jamie Dixon

We had four good games up there. We got a lot of good things out of it. A lot of guys got some good, big-game experience in a hostile atmosphere similar to what we'll face in the NCAA tournament. We got better last week. That's the biggest advantage.