Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunter Grass

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Bradley Chicho

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Ashwin Sanghi

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.

Harbhajan Singh

It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

Charles Holmes

As far as I'm concerned the guy was crooked as a snake. Wyatt Earp was a deputy U.S. marshal at the time of the shootout. Virgil was a deputy U.S. marshal, and the chief of police...Morgan had been authorized as a constable...Wyatt Earp had warrants for these characters, and the sheriff had warrants for Wyatt Earp. So it was crazy the way things were done.

Joe Meno

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

Allen Wright

Pyle is considered the author of Robin Hood.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Lori Wilde

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.

Jim Taylor

The people of New Orleans need to get back to at least the level of hurricane protection we had before Katrina. We were authorized to do that, and do it quickly. It's up to Congress to decide to take it to a higher level.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days, this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Graham Nelson

The single biggest is to stop the player from getting stuck and getting bored; always think like the player as well as the designer.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Gary Mitchell

This is probably the biggest name show we'll have all year.

Richard Colless

This is the biggest issue in perhaps the last 72 years of this club and due process has got to be adhered to.

John Harmon

This is the biggest honor I've ever had in 34 years of broadcasting baseball, ... I hadn't been there in 21 years and they still remembered me. I thought that was pretty nice.

Marcus Camby

This is the biggest game of the season. It was a far cry from the first two games. We had life.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Pierre Dupasquier

Despite McLaren's magnificent victory, the team obviously had some kind of tyre issue today,

John Kingston

Despite marginal falls in individual production levels, OPEC is still pumping nearly flat out in the face of high prices.

Benazir Bhutto

despite it our many people won their seats.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

Bobby Knight

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most of them were forced as a result of the way they play.

Meat Loaf

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Steve Hiltz

The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make prison visits.

John Galsworthy

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it

Larry Slason

They forced us out of our game today. We didn't go wide like we usually do and we weren't able to get as many crosses.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Muhammad Ali

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Dana Trumm

We gave some of the junior varsity players an opportunity to play varsity today. We did real well. The whole idea was to give them some experience.

Nicole Murphy

A lot of people get the impression that it's BS, but there is a lot involved in it. We do play a lot of games, but what we actually do has a lot of structure to it.

Diego Della Valle

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.