Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Bartlett

We do have the legal authority to do what we are doing. We have the necessity to do what we are doing.

Joe Meno

Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.

George Washington

Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

We received a threat but I can't elaborate. We turned the plane around and notified the proper authorities.

We'll wait until preliminary results come in and then insist on a vote recount. If the authorities refuse to do so, we'll campaign to ensure that the election is declared unconstitutional.

When you're creating a new taxing authority, it could possibly create instability, of which Tunica has been fortunate not to have over the last 14 years.

We had it on very good authority from figures who ought to know, the governor and a congressman, that those miners were alive, and we reported it. And as soon as we knew otherwise, we reported that too.

Chris Brown

I would note, not a single customer of Phillips Roofing ever contacted the authorities with a complaint. The authority contacted them and told them they were victims of a crime.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Ernst Mayr

Most modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype.

Stephanie Laurens

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.

Merck and the authors did everything in a proper scientific manner.

Middleton bus station is extremely impressive and the Authority is committed to building more of its kind throughout Greater Manchester in the years to come.

Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.

You have to factor in the timing needs of the Housing Authority which were very unique, and the ongoing businesses that were involved in each, so these were not typical land sale transactions.

You can complain to a small bank, but you can't always complain to a big bank. When you talk to people at a small bank, they actually have the authority to make decisions.

The assumptions made by some of the authors were not based on the best data, or were just a little bit too convenient, and had a strong impact on the results.

Scott Wilson

That's the other job of our elected officials. You've got to get them authorized and you've got to get them appropriated.

John Cullum

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

William Shakespeare

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.

We haven't been given authority to print it,

We have not had bishops tell us we're treading on the bishops' authority. If they did, we would back off.

Thomas Jefferson

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Victor LaValle

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

The president believes that he has the authority necessary. But we're willing to work with the Congress if they feel that further codification of that is needed.

The problem is, who do they report to? No one knows, ... It seems there is no one who has authority over all these people coming down from all over the United States.

Rodrigo Rato

Those are the three main elements in which we're working with Iraqi authorities,

Well (expletive). Colley doesn't have the authority to call out the national guard. Only the governor does. This kind of (expletive) has been going on all day.

Alice McDermott

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Tom Ridge

unify people, priorities and programs under a single line of authority.

John Walton

Unfortunately, the truth is the reason they may have taken this position because they really can't lose. Even if they lose the case altogether, people who have heard of the case will be picking up their book. And one of the authors already has a new book coming out.