Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

It's a gimmick. It's more fun. Usually, you're just standing there, trying to look compelling in some way and not succeeding. It can look like a mug shot. The author can look, not exactly like a deer in the headlights, but a little bit like another night creature scuttling from burrow to burrow.

Roger Williams

I told him it wasn't and that the person who gave that opinion was not authorized to do so.

Peter Baker

It's an ongoing problem. I'm a firm believer that the project manager needs the authority to make decisions without going to higher-ups once the project has been authorized.

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.

They've really done a 180 on this. The new fix that they have in Beta right now for Outlook completely removes programmability except as manually authorized in each case by the user. And this will break, frankly, a large number of corporate applications, but for the general user this is the right thing to do.

It shows that the author of the study says it doesn't have anything to do with reliability.

It should release detainees it has no legal authority to hold. It should provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes and it should investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for the torture of detainees.

It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

It's great to see each community - the people that live there and the authors who write about it. And the food.

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It's not unusual. We have no authority to hold them if they can make the bail.

Julie Parrish

It's only for those partners who are authorized to sell our enterprise-type products, so this isn't really for the lower-end Windows-based anti-virus and backup type products.

It's the Constitution of the United States. It's the recognized authority both of the national government and of the state governments, creating a dual chain of command.

It's tantamount to devaluation. We'll have to see whether the authorities can keep the devaluation controlled or not.

It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

Ryan Smith

It's like bouncing my head off the wall. Something has to be done where (authority members) work closer with the people.

It is very seldom that the NTC has used its power and authority to close down radio stations and TV stations, only when the situation calls for it.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.