Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rodman Philbrick

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

You didn't call about her wrists. You didn't call about your wife running off. You never called authorities.

Robert Johnson

We don't have the authority under law to reform CAFE standards for passenger vehicles. We need Congress to give us the authority to do passenger cars.

Rupert Holmes

When you write songs for the theatre-particularly if you are also the author of the libretto-you can create any world you want. And then you get to write the songs that people who live in that world would sing.

Nancy Kress

All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

Nancy Cartwright

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

Lysander Spooner

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.

Louis A. Johnson

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

We're making a request to the DA to return the medicine to those authorized to possess it.

Unless there is a substantial movement by the authority, trains and buses will come to a halt as of midnight tonight.

Unless draconian laws which give authority to Indian forces to catch and kill people without any reason are withdrawn ... peace in the region will remain a distant dream.

George Coleman

We removed it because by the time we got around to doing it, we figured the city of Sandy Springs would be in business. We figured we'd let the governing authority see if they wanted red-light cameras.

We're still a little bit concerned butwe don't have the authority or the information and we're just waiting to see what the people who do have that authority and information tell us to do.

We're seeing an administration that's engaging in a lot of legal hairsplitting to justify behavior that's not authorized by the law.

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

We have never, ever used that authority, ever. We have never run out and taken someone's property ever, that's just not the way we do business here.

Whenever you have a concern about a group of kids, you have to get those with authority together to discuss it.

We extend a hand for peace, I think now the whole world can watch and see what the Palestinian Authority is instigating in response.

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.