Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Tom Daschle

I support the president's authority to make decisions with regard to clemency and pardons. That is a president's right, ... But I must say I am troubled deeply by the lack of remorse, the lack of empathy for the victims on the part of the Puerto Ricans themselves. And based upon that, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution.

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Terry Hands

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Khalil Greene

I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, ... Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port issues were front and center during our administration.

I was extremely fascinated by Casey Stengel. He was really such an intelligent guy, displaying an American wit, typical of one from the Midwest and the great author Mark Twain. I have always had a great curiosity, and I wanted to dig until I found what made this man who and what he was. I found that he was an incredibly funny guy with tremendous observational powers. Some people loved him and others hated him.

Chevy Stevens

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

It feels so real, so honest. The author knew these people. Their stories unfold naturally.

Dan White

It does create some administrative matters for the election authority in setting up these booths and getting staffing for them.

George Clooney

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

Julie Kagawa

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Donald Kennedy

It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose.

It is extremely regrettable. We hope investigation authorities will conduct a thorough probe.

Dan Smith

Maybe I'll find something that I wouldn't find back home. I've been around (the country), and there are some books that are only sold regionally, since their authors are from those areas.

Steve Spurrier

I think today gave him a little more confidence. He threw the ball with authority most of the day.

Sol Campbell

It is now being dealt with by the authorities.

Jack Evans

It is not possible for the city to spend more than $535 million because the council has authorized the city to borrow that,

Frank Dobson

It is one of the growing products of the fact the Prime Minister is going and his authority isn't as strong as it used to be.

It is important that local and national authorities within other countries in the region remain vigilant for possible outbreaks of suspected avian influenza in poultry and other birds. It is vital that all instances of multiple bird deaths are reported to authorities and investigated promptly.

It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.

Jeff Daly

It is just becoming beyond the reach of working singles and many families with children. ... We're happy to get the big Bed, Beth and Beyond and Sports Authority and Wal-Mart, but where will the people who work there live?

Sue Kelly

I was a chief author of the Truth-in-Regulating Act, which provided a new way for the federal government to review the impact of proposed regulations on small businesses before they take effect.

I will do everything in my personal power to see this county does not lose funding, and that our housing authority becomes more stable. I expect to be clear about what we need to do to clean up the matter as far as what HUD wants to see.

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Steve Erickson

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.