Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Nancy Farmer

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Katie Price

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

Sathya Baba

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us, for it is the malady of the present age.

Scott Gordon

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre.

E. O. Wilson

Boundaries will be broken, ... and you're going to see more women in leadership roles on television and in real life. We simply want to do our part to hurry history.

E. B. White

He is not bound by any timeline, ... He's going to be extremely prudent, deliberate and pragmatic in his decision.

Billy Connolly

I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.

Bill Gates

Change the boundaries of business.

John Simley

When you look at a store, there are multiple quantities of 100,000 items. You are talking about millions of items on hand. They move through the store very quickly and that makes it enormously difficult and costly. But it is the law in Michigan, and we are bound to comply with it.

Donald Luskin

When you don't have an expanding market and have people wanting to save money by moving down the quality curve ... that goes straight to the revenue line of a company like Intel, and they are bound to miss,

Patrick Fitzgerald

When a vice president's chief of staff is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, it does show the world that this is a country that takes its law seriously; that all citizens are bound by the law.

Mike Fisher

We don't lose much when we're up 3-0. But we got one point tonight and played well during the first half. It's bound to happen here and there.

Paris Hilton

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Rig Veda

Humans should do charity and do service to others.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Mark Leonard

That first period was probably the worst period we've played all year. We had a talk about commitment and skating after the first and I thought we were fortunate to be down only 1-0.

Gina Gallo

It's in the tens of millions of dollars to make a commitment like this, to really make this come to be a reality. There's no question it's a large commitment for our company, our family,

David Byrne

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health.

Tom Cuddy

It's an extension of our commitment to enhancing our customer service.

Janet Williams

It's great to be named at No.,1 but even without this list Cummins has a decades-long commitment to being environmentally friendly and making the company a diverse and welcoming workplace,

Janet Murguia

It's disappointing. We need to see more of a commitment than, 'Oh, we can do better.' What steps are they taking?

Scott Helbing

It's very rewarding to be recognized as an industry leader in the consumer market by such a respected research group as Forrester. We will continue our ongoing commitment to provide customers with one of today's greatest service values -- creating and delivering a customer-driven experience at one of the industry's most competitive price points.

Abraham Scott

Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.

Mark Oliphant

I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.

Robby Krieger

Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.

Tom Foley

Lloyd was a great friend, and he died too soon.

Susan Anderson

He always said that he wanted to go back. He said make sure when he died he would be placed on the Arizona.

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Jane Austen

She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Ken Bacon

It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Tim Finchem

This is a win-win-win partnership that we have in this room today. The players are going to love being here and love playing on this course.

Paul Schell

This is not the Seattle we know and love.

K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Robin Dunne

That town, when you're hot, people love you.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.