Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

David Blunkett

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

We had a pretty good season. It was fairly satisfying.

Edward Kennedy

When we rebuild the land ravaged by the winds and the floods, we must rebuild it to be a more just and fair land.

Ian Blair

Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.

Mollie King

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Warren Christopher

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

There is a tremendous need. We are trying to manage this and be fair with the process with people who are low-income and are in a precarious situation.

Richard Harris

Up front played fairly solid, but not sound. I want to get them sound and solid.

Pat Riley

(Walsh) is not going to become a little whip in this thing. He held out and got fair value.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.

Teresa Heinz

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

I thought we played fairly well in the first half. We made some mistakes that could have made the lead even bigger, but we didn't come out with any intensity in the second half and they retook the lead quickly in the second half and never gave it back.

I thought we, all things considered, maintained our focus fairly well. Especially in that first game as we didn't get into any ruts.

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Yahoo Serious

I think we have an optimistic view of the world. I think we're a very positive race, and I think we're very egalitarian - we give everyone a fair go.

Brian Billick

I think we've done things fairly intelligently. We've rebuilt without drastically slipping back at any one point.

I think we should go back. In fairness I don't think they should get two years of free taxes.

I think when it first happened, I thought it's an opportunity to grow as a person. This is not fair for (the players), but life is not fair sometimes. It's unfortunate, but I thought they handled it as well as they possibly could.

Bruce Pearl

I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that would be a fair assessment. I saw more than I thought we had. It was nice to see it.

I think a week of profit taking is fairly healthy after the kind of run we've seen.

Al Jourgensen

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

Ella Wilcox

Waste no tearsUpon the blotted record of lost years,But turn the leaf, and smile, oh! smile, to seeThe fair white pages that remain for thee.

We actually played fairly well. We're just trying to focus on playing well on our side of the net.