Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Coady

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Bethany Mota

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And really, that is Chic.

Diane Ackerman

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

This release enables us to now serve as a platform. It is a collection of APIs and services that will enable companies to engage in commercial adoption.

We just have to understand, we're a collection of individuals that need go down and play as hard as we can. We can't be worrying about the outcome of the game, win or lose. You play as hard you can, prepare as well you can and see what happens.

Joe Williams

We combined Monday and Tuesday's collection routes into one day. I'll tell you, this time of year my guys are tired. They're tired, but they're doing a heck of a job.

We have got other written works in our collection but not this one.

My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! As a teenager in Milan, I was really fascinated by Fiorucci, but at the time I was not rich enough to buy. Oh my God! I made a collection of Fiorucci shopping bags, and my mother, she still has them and my stickers, and now I invite Elio Fiorucci to our shows.

Fire prevention is the number one goal for the nation's firefighters, and hundreds of fire departments nationwide are helping CPSC with today's recall roundup by serving as collection sites for hazardous products.

Jon Polito

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

We haven't seen one penny yet. At the end of March, we get the tax collection for January.

We have a fine collection of children's books.

We have a very unique fruit cone and seed collection that we're trying to increase. We do consulting work for commercial companies, such as spice companies, when they can't identify in-house. Occasionally there are some odd seeds.

Richard's collection is truly runway-ready. We hope our customers will enjoy our new look just as much as we do.

Matt Reeves

I remember watching the Blu-ray, and also when they first released it on DVD in the collection of all three movies of 'The Godfather,' and seeing all of those scenes that they cut out, and there wasn't a single one of them that I wished they had kept it, but they were the most exciting thing to watch anyway.

Harmony Korine

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Anne Sexton

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

We are extremely proud of our collection of historical railroad equipment, which is the largest of any U. S. railroad, especially our steam locomotives.

Jim Edmonds

What we have now at the Port of Houston is a collection of docks that we operate and a variety of cargoes. At the port, there are 200 trading nations and 1,000 ports that deal with Houston.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I'm so excited to be working with 360, not only because I am in love with everything they create but also because each collection always includes the key pieces I look for.

The expectations are very high that the collection will come back in good condition. Some may be returned in even better condition.

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Barton Gellman

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.

Leon Redbone

I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

We found quite a collection of debris in there -- worms, frogs, salamanders and granular calcium, which resembles white sand, at the bottom,

Bryan Robson

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.