Famous Quotes & Sayings

We should have the funds authorized within the next couple of weeks, and then we will sign the contracts with United Water and the township.

Adam Smith

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

We had received complaints that the inspector was intimidating Northwest replacement workers, was unprofessional in his conduct and exceeded his authority so we are also investigating those charges.

Marc Rotenberg

We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.

We have every expectation that they will seek the permission of the property owner, but by this action, we've authorized them to be able to do that.

We don't want a strike, and we'll do everything possible to avoid one. But the drivers authorized a strike by a 96 percent margin, indicating how serious they are about their key issues, and we're ready to strike if we are forced to.

We certainly don't want to give them carte blanche authority to determine either what is safe or unsafe without some type of basis for that decision or explaining why.

David Hoffman

We certainly believe we meet the test (for having authority to sell at market rates), and we'll see where it goes from here.

Andrew Gray

We continue to work with leadership to draft a bill that will provide the necessary borrowing authority as expeditiously as possible.

Javier Solana

We are trying to provide the necessary resources we hope that we will have enough money to support the Palestinian Authority until a new government is formed.

We are trying to get the Department of Defense to create a line item in their budget and give somebody the authority to go out and strategically buy satellite capacity.

Robert Gottlieb

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

Janet Fitch

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Michel Faber

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

Jeff Sessions

We've put our treasure and our moral authority and the lives of our soldiers to this effort. A lot of Americans wish we'd never been there and it hadn't cost so much ... but that's not the question.

What gives us the authority to second guess their decisions? We can't decide after the fact that we can grab that authority for ourselves.

What authority does the United States have to gesticulate and make improper comments about China's defensive national defense policy and measures? ... China expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition.

What authority does a court clerk have to collect more than the fine that is owed? Essentially, that's what they're doing.

We were planning to do it, and he said that was a good idea, and I think we will move forward to cooperate with him, ... He is in favor of giving the Iraqis authority as quickly as it can be done.

What that means is he was in a position of authority, similar to a teacher. Basically, he was in control of the situation because he was hired as her instructor.

David Levithan

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.

There's lots of speculators betting that we're going to break the 8 yuan per dollar level soon. The authorities are very averse to speculators trying to make money, so they're making it hard for them.

The United States has lost control of their budget at a time when racking up deficits has been authorized without any control (from Congress),

I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.

Michael A. Stackpole

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

I sincerely feel that the present structure and lines of authority grant me what I need in regards to accomplishing my mission. The secretary and deputy secretary always have their door open to me, and we've had many of discussions.

Molly Antopol

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Nick Hornby

I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.

Peter DeFazio

It would have given him authority to do anything he wanted, anytime, anywhere.

David Rakoff

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

Ben Goldacre

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.