Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Michael Lewis

If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process.

Phil Klay

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Marco Coleman

And as far as a team liking you, that's just how it is; either they like you or they don't. What you can do is make it easier for them to like you. And it's easier to like you if you respect the game, respect yourself and work at your craft every day.

Preity Zinta

I'm more grounded now. I've started doing fewer films. I've started meditating. I want to live my today because I may not have a tomorrow.

Li Yongbo

If not the 21-point scoring system, there would be fewer opportunities for the young players such as Wang Lin to come out.

Dan Fauser

Their physical size hurt us. They have more kids than we do and they wore us down. They executed well. They made fewer mistakes tonight.

Tim Chase

The longer the problem went on, fewer VPs seemed to be around. Only the occasional technician would accidentally pick up the phone if you were lucky.

Bill Clinton

And I hope that the end will come sooner rather than later, so fewer people will die.

Earl Boykins

It's money time. There are fewer possessions and I haven't done anything for two weeks. I struggled in the first half because I was a little overaggressive. I relaxed in the second half and was able to hit some shots.

Russell Kinnel

It's a challenging thing to do, and probably can be done a little more tax-efficiently by the mutual fund than by the investor who has fewer holdings.

Tom Golisano

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

Jason Lamb

We're making good progress, but we have a ways to go. We are making fewer mistakes, the guys are really hustling and we are getting more confidence.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Greg Egan

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

Gore Vidal

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Dan Rather

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Gary Shutt

We'll let them do their work and see where that takes us.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.