Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Prokofiev

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

Albert Einstein

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Dick Murphy

I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.

Christopher Plourd

He was Mr. Clean; he was every woman's dream. All his glasses were always perfectly arranged and the cabinets were spotless. His son said that if something was used that night, he would have cleaned it.

Norma McCorvey

Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights." ()

Michael Martin

I put the house I share with my partner, Eric Webb, into a trust to keep it out of harm's way, legally. And I arranged to have the Jewel Box Theater cleared of liability. But the Jewel Box owners weren't convinced. They didn't want to be involved in anything that had been found illegal in a court.

Alice Fisher

The four executives arranged a complex scheme to cook the books at AIG. The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Graham Shear

These proceedings were commenced because these newspapers published false and offensive articles designed to tell readers that Ashley had behaved in what the News of the World described as a 'perverted' way with other professional footballers. The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him.

Graham Shear

The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him. There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly journalism or let it go unchallenged.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jojo Moyes

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Len Deighton

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

Debbie Travis

It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, movies and, when they have time, homework,

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Michael Vaughan

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

George Parnham

We may as well wipe it off the books.

Tom Powers

We made some crucial turnovers. In my book, a turnover is a four-point swing.

Larry Hackett

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

William Shakespeare

He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Dan Hedges

He did a very good job of making a complex story very understandable for the jury.

Katori Hall

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Sarah MacLean

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Chris Sisko

It comes down to the complex interplay of these larger-scale systems.

Randy Charles

It is a complex set of issues in publishing, where you often have three levels?authors, imprint and corporate parent?juggling what to emphasize when and for what purpose.

Larry Ellison

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

John Sculley

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Sen Simpson

We took just 117 days to conduct a complex financial process that typically takes nine months.

Paul Singer

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Jason Brown

Keith, Richard and Jino have been pretty steady so far and one of my top players in Anthony Cook didn't play because he was sick. Next week he'll be all right. I'm pretty happy with some of our progress.

Cameron Mackintosh

I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.

Kevin O'Connell

He'd be responsible for thinking up the next type of cookie and handle all the taste-testing. Smiley would report directly to Jerome.

Orrin Hatch

He knew if those cook ovens shut down, Geneva would disintegrate in a number of days, ... He knew that would hurt our state.

Cassandra Wright

He liked cooking. He would go to work sick and you wouldn't know it. He was so stubborn. His goal was he'd get three cooks on the line, and he'd get on the line by himself and produce more than those three cooks would.

Graham Elliot

Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

Sally Schneider

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

Michael Symon

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Gordon Brown

has been designed ... to put stability first.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Jody Williams

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

David Wheeler

What mediation is designed for is to resolve disputes on the value on a claim, not whether there is a claim.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Larry Lucchino

Henry said. ''He may, however, go to Palm Springs to talk with possible candidates, if there are any executives he has been given permission to talk with.

Sue Shipman

What I have found working with entrepreneurs and executives is what they really want is their life back.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

Larry Ellison

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

Steve Ellis

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Jim Calhoun

I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't see some different teams in the semifinals than what people are predicting. And I wouldn't be surprised to see someone play four games in four days. That's just the way this season has gone.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Chuck D.

I would say it's highly unusual, ... I couldn't tell you if it's ever happened. I'm sure there's been times when there were three, but four is ... Wow, that's pretty good.

Woodie Fryman

Just like anyone, I had my good games and bad, but the last four years in Montreal were really enjoyable.

Chris Higgins

Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

Mark Richt

Just three or four weeks ago, I was saying we were as healthy as we've been, ... Now we might be as banged-up as we've ever been.

Terry Roberts

keep the next group down to four or five.

Debra Smith

I think it is terrific to see people investing in our youth.

Ron Chernow

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

Reid Hoffman

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

Robert Rubin

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Warren Buffett

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Warren Buffett

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

Warren Buffett

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

Warren Buffett

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

Warren Buffett

Is management candid with the shareholders?

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.