Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Moon

This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everything is in place. Yeah, I'd say it's a big year.

Carlos Delgado

This is a very unique opportunity. It is once in a lifetime and you have to make exceptions and adjustments. I am proud of being Puerto Rican, and we think this is a big deal.

Tom Davis

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

Yvonne Taylor

Anything we're required to keep is an open record, unless there are exceptions in state or federal law.

Carlos Delgado

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to play, so you just have to make exceptions and you have to make adjustments.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Exceptions dont always prove old rules, sometimes they presage a new one.

Mikhail Bakunin

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Bob Hunter

Because of exceptions to the law, it didn't do any good.

Alafair Burke

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Larry Parker

Yes, I think some procedures can be tightened up. Improvements can be made.

Marianne Moore

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Charles Gittins

He did the procedures that are required to do a proper periscope search. Unfortunately, he didn't see the target.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Andrew Pyper

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Wylie

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Phyllis Theroux

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Timothy Geithner

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Robert Henri

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Richard Branson

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Sebastian Coe

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual