Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schaeffer

I have to write from my experience. If I wasn't a member of the club, I don't think it would be as funny, or that I would feel as authorized to look at it with humor.

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.

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.

Sathya Baba

If one loses wealth, he may regain it by some means or other. If he loses health, some doctor might prescribe a tonic to win it back. If one loses status and authority he may, by sheer luck, gain them back. If Virtue is lost, it is lost forever; nothing can restore the pristine purity. So one has to be ever vigilant and should never slacken.

I have no idea what the Ports Authority is thinking and I never have. We're moving forward with the condemnation and feel confident it's back on track and are delighted that the Supreme Court ruling justified our right to build a marine terminal on the Savannah River.

Robert Gottlieb

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

Vito Fossella

I have no confidence in Hamas as a responsible leader of the Palestinian Authority nor do I believe the terrorist group wants peace with Israel.

O. Henry

I guess all things have to end, and they ended (the scoreless stretch) with authority.

Cassandra Clare

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.

In 1 percent of the cases we find authors have engaged in fraud.

Mal Peet

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

Sarah Brady

Individuals who are unfamiliar with Florida's roads, traffic regulations and customs, or who speak foreign languages, or look different than Florida residents, may face a higher risk of danger -- because they may be more likely to be perceived as threatening by Floridians, and because they are unaware of Florida's new law that says individual who feel their safety is threatened or their possessions are at risk are legally authorized to use deadly force,

Bill Richardson

I need full authority. I don't care what is holding it up. We just need to get it done -- this is for the national interest. I'm just stating a fact. It's not authorized,

Ron Kind

In America, however, the authority to grant legal status to a marriage has been a function reserved for the states, and different states have different laws regarding issues ranging from blood-testing to waiting periods before marriage.

Fred Thompson

I'm talking about using the authority of your office to encourage them to do the right thing. I would call on you to do, as you've done before, and call on an independent counsel yourself,

Marco Rubio

I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.

J. Taylor

I'm the president, and there was no contractual arrangement to do that. I never authorized it.

It's not clear that the governor has the authority to invoke a line-item veto on a policy area, ... There's going to be some interesting conversations on that.

Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

Leopold Trepper

At the end of the nineteenth century, he explained, the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian empire had been authorized to change their names.

Dick Cheney

evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

Nick Harkaway

A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.

Also, musicians and authors will go outside of the major industries to speak directly to consumers. That's starting to be a small trend now, but we see that becoming a very major trend within about two years.

Gilles Duceppe

They no longer have the moral authority to govern,

They need six lanes to move traffic now. More lanes would certainly be needed in the future. An authority would help make that happen sooner.

They have a lot of authority to do that already, and the border security problems are exactly the types of crimes that they already have authority to do the wiretapping for.

It's authority we need to do our job more effectively.

Mike Huckabee

It's a bad idea for the military to make that decision and usurp the authority that under the U.S. Constitution stays with the governor and local authorities,

Norman Cousins

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.