Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Ports Authority has never hesitated about throwing out a price of $3 million. Sounds like a lot of money to me.

The Port Authority predicted exactly what happened. Why didn't they do something about it?

Jane Jacobs

The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.

The Port Authority is confident it will prevail.

Unfortunately, he went beyond his authority and he should have contacted someone higher up.

Thomas Mitchell

Unfortunate impracticability of temper and spirit of opposition of those in authority over oneself misled oneself into frequent collision with my predecessors.

The reason we filed in the lawsuit in the simplest terms possible is to prevent the authors from promoting themselves and profiting from illegal conduct.

FIDNET won't monitor any private network or e-mail traffic or confer new authority on any government agency, and will be fully consistent with privacy law and practice -- right?

Alice Waters

English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.

Per Petterson

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

The governor believes the secretary has the authority to properly manage the corrections system and protect the public safety.

The governor appreciates the General Assembly's efforts to help clarify her authority over the flag in this situation.

The government may intend the non-disclosure provision to serve some purpose other than the suppression of speech, ... Nevertheless, it has the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important in an ongoing national debate about the intrusion of governmental authority into individual lives.

Anthony Horowitz

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Michael O'Brien

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

When you have an author of the caliber of Bernard Cornwell, one of the world's top historical novelist, it's very gratifying to publish him on a global basis giving him the prominence he deserves. We expect this important deal, in conjunction with the new TV mini-series, will bring him even greater success around the world.

The only change would be transferring the legal authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Services from the Justice Department to the Homeland Security Department,

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

Deb Caletti

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Dean Wareham

It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews.

Without that authority, it becomes very difficult to solve this problem. If we need consensus, it may take too long.

Without HUD's help and funding, our housing authority would not exist.

With so many external pressures, heads and principals will need to delegate more authority and leadership teams will grow in importance.

When we terminate this mandate, we have no authority to hand it over to the UN. This is not our business.

We came down here for a learning type thing. But we hit the ball with authority at times and we made some hard outs.

Rudolph Giuliani

We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.

Chris Edwards

While tax authorities have increased surveillance and regulation in a bid to stem the flow of investment capital and profits to low-tax jurisdictions, it's easier to shift money around than it used to be thanks to technology. Both legal avoidance and illegal evasion techniques have become more accessible.

Anthony DeCurtis

Who's going to do it? Who has the authority to kind of step into that role and speak for everybody?

Ron Kind

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Though I am the author of this system, one should know that I do nothing and I am eternal.

James Inhofe

Those who seek to criticize this legislation under the guise of environmental concerns have it backwards as the use of the authority is specifically to protect public health,

We are working around the clock with the Iraqi authorities and foreign missions to win the release of all the hostages.

David Crane

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.