Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anderson Cooper

In hindsight, you think, yeah there are things you could have done. But at the time we had multiple sources telling us the information and we had people in positions of authority ... telling us the information was correct. When you have officials telling you something and eyewitnesses telling you something, at some point you have to rely on that information.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,

Indeed, it's not feasible to do the sort of thorough fact-checking that some books may require, in terms of both money and time. We do go back to authors over and over again, getting them to confirm facts and questioning the veracity of their stories, but sometimes it's just not possible.

I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

Kweisi Mfume

I know that gay bashing and immigrant bashing and union bashing at the end of the day rob us of our moral authority ....

I hope the sports authority doesn't take it for granted that when they run this deal up the flagpole we're all going to salute,

Ariel Sharon

I have outlined to Gen. Powell the steps I will take if calm is restored in order to ease the economic conditions of the Palestinian population in the Palestinian Authority territories, ... One thing will be clear. Israel will not be negotiating under the pressure of terror and violence.

I'm sure we'll continue to be in contact with the authorities as they deal with a very difficult situation. The meeting yesterday was in a sense a six-month review. I think the operative note is that the board decided not to restore Zimbabwe's voting and related rights and not return any signing eligibility to use the resources of the Fund.

Rhys Ifans

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

Fred Turner

It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.

It's very sad that the city and Port Authority care more about real estate than finding ways to work with the companies who are being damaged by this mishandling of maritime commerce.

Rick Riordan

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

I want to limit it to the weapons of mass destruction and provide language that in the event the United Nations does not compel compliance, then the president would be authorized to use force. So the first obligation would be on the United Nations,

I view this as a step up. I feel I have more authority, more responsibility, more power with the Orioles. If I thought it was a lateral move, I wouldn't be coming down there.

Oprah Winfrey

I wanted to open the door and broaden the field, ... That allows me the opportunity to do what I like to do most, which is sit and talk to authors about their work. It's kind of hard to do that when they're dead.

I try to make everyone in authority aware of the problem here, but I guess no one is going to take us seriously until a child is attacked.

Lindsay Davenport

(It) took me about the middle of the first set till I really felt like I was hitting the ball with more authority and moving forward,

It took cutting through a lot of red tape to get the permission to build from the local authorities. There was no land available for building the village.

William Russell

It takes a lot of time, energy and focus for the Housing Authority to be its own developer.

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Ariel Sharon

The (U.S.) government knew all the details, ... It was known to them that the Palestinian Authority paid millions of dollars. Payments of this nature are authorized only by Yasser Arafat.

They are not violating any obscenity law; they are not illegal. They fall under the authority of the State Liquor Control Board, which can suspend their license if they violate the law.

John Dryden

They who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men

They have seized the initiative and are putting pressure on the authorities.

They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor authority.

Harry Reid

There's a dark cloud hanging over the White House. It's really a storm cloud. The vice president, who gets his authority from the president, sadly is in the middle of that storm,

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.

What we also saw today was that some of the kids who have been struggling offensively are starting to come around. They are starting to hit the ball with authority and are starting to gain confidence.