Famous Quotes & Sayings

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

Ellen Key

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

You don't play 21 years and not have an incredible passion for the game. He's a very innovative guy and that, combined with the passion, I don't know how you can't have success.

Jan Egeland

We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed.

Nicola Formichetti

Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality.

Sonny Perdue

When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.

I thought our defense was the key for us tonight. We talked about that before the game. We knew that was going to be the key for us. The last time we played them, (Kate) Norton and (Melissa) Olsen combined for 25 points.

I think what will win out in the end is good quality, credible content, combined with great services ... and commerce opportunities.

I think a lot of people questioned what position I would play in this league. With some reason, they should have. But considering the way I played in the combine and how much I showed those guys, I was comfortable and relaxed at the perimeter position. I think that gave them some confidence to give me the opportunity to get picked in the first round.

I think Armin is a better slider, but Georg is a better sled builder. If you combined the two, they'd be unstoppable.

Brian Reynolds

We had some incredible swims by a lot of kids. We had some fantastic performances combined with several very solid ones.

Greg McHugh

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

Mike Carey

Without Meg, we struggle to score. That, combined with turnovers and missed foul shots make it tough to win.

Ken Anderson

When you're at the combine ... you're throwing at receivers, you don't know how they're going to come out of the break. When you go see a kid on his campus, he's always going to perform better than they would at the combine.

Bill Laimbeer

We watched her at the combine and she grew on us. There was no question that if we had made a trade and had lost one of our big players we would have taken her. But we would have worked a deal to move up to take her, too. She competes.

Mark Few

We had some real good streaks where we combined defense and offense and that provided us a gap. We haven't done a lot of that all year.

Two of the most popular sporting events in the world are the World Cup of soccer and the Olympics, and one of the reasons they're successful is because they combine sport with nationalism. Any time you do that, you expand the interest in the sport.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

We're trying to have the old school and new school combined in this location. Some might want to come here for recreational needs, to listen to artists, listen to musicians. We're going to have that, too.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

This should raise the overall value of the combined assets.

Bill Gates

We lusted after some of those things (Palm) did well, and we wanted to combine it with the things we did well. It's wonderful to see those things come together.

Bill Gates

We lusted after some of the things (Palm) did well and wanted to combine them with some of the things that we did well.

When combined with the run-up in employee health-care costs, ... the inability to raise selling prices is the single most important reason that job growth has been lagging so much during this recovery.

We think the two companies combined really create a powerhouse in this market.

This transaction will effectively combine two strong pools of liquidity into one fully integrated and innovative trading platform,

We combined radio measurements we made of the Zeeman effect and optical measurements of magnetic fields from starlight.

We combined it all - hitting, pitching and defense. When we do that, we're dangerous.

We had a confluence of negative events -- the hurricanes, gas going for over $3 a gallon and a rising death toll in Iraq, all in September. All that combined to create a sense of anxiety.

We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

Ruth Reichl

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

James Murdoch

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