Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Friedman

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

Ziggy Marley

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Bob Schieffer

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Igor Luksic

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

Bob Schieffer

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Kaufman

We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns,

Joe Trippi

We have a national campaign, and running a national campaign is more expensive than running in just a couple of states.

Bob Marcusse

We could not have imagined a few years ago that the Dream It Do It campaign would lead to this, but it has, and we are grateful and pleased.

Roger Stone

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

John Edward

Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message. The message is this -- objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear, ... They want a debate. They want this campaign to continue. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Andrew Card

We have a lot of priorities that would come before campaign finance reform, but we do respect the leadership that John McCain has offered in this area, ... Face the Nation.

Jim Irsay

We're working hard in Indianapolis to have a facility similar to this, a sort of sister stadium, but there's a lot of distance to be covered still. These things are very complex, and they take a lot of twists and turns. The exciting thing is that if we get it done as planned, and we move in for the 2008 season, we'll have Peyton Manning there for the opening.

Peter Thiel

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Ann Wright

We intend to do peaceful, non-violent disobedience because that's what is covered (by the media), ... If it takes that, we'll do it.

Orlando Cabrera

I'm speechless. Great play, man, unbelievable. He covered a lot of ground. I didn't think he was going to be able to make it. He got it done. We always come out with good plays in those kind of situations.

Andre Holland

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

Bernard Goldberg

were covered in hundreds of pounds of cow intestines, which they had to puncture with their mouths, suck out the liquid, fill a glass with it then drink the juice.

Persian Proverb

Tis the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather

Haley Bennett

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

Gerhard Schr

on Sunday. No one will be able to say that she comfortably covered up her plans.

Jay Wright

We just didn't do a good enough job today covering the 3s. When they hit those 3s they are a very difficult team to beat.

Jay Wright

We just didn't do a good enough job today covering the 3s, ... When they hit those 3s they are a very difficult team to beat.

Byron Leftwich

Jimmy will get old when guys start covering him by themselves, ... and that hasn't happened since I have been here.

Jerrold Nadler

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

Hu Jintao

We have an in-depth exchange of ideas on a number of issues and I am very interested in further pursing our discussions covering bilateral relations and questions of shared interests.

Patrick Walsh

I think my dad was back there covering him,

Richard Kelley

We're covering the five major property types and dynamic people speaking to each topic. Phoenix is a market firing on all cylinders and it's exciting for us to go there and meet the people who are making it happen.

Steve Novak

We recognized early that they weren't covering our handoffs as well, and we were able to get a lot of buckets off of handoffs.

Atom Egoyan

I guess I'm naive. I really had no idea it would be a problem. I just heard the deciding factor could be thrusting. Apparently, anything over three thrusts and you're in trouble. Well, nobody told me. I didn't even do covering shots, so there's nothing I can cut away to. This is what you get.

Walter Kirn

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

John Benjamin Hickey

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

John Fernandez

We know it's been used for drug traffic but this really illustrates the dangers and risks of security to Americans.

Danny Miller

One of the dangers is inventing a solution before there is a problem.

Steve Cassidy

Today is an immensely sad day in the history of the department. Sadly, these dual tragedies serve as a reminder to New York of the extreme dangers firefighters face.

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Kevin Clark

We're in schools at least three or four times a week trying to teach students and parents about the dangers on the Internet. We try to impress upon them that the odds are in their favor. They most likely won't be a victim, but if they are, there can be severe consequences.

Alan Blinder

What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not.

Dave Marshall

The dangers are definitely there, it is always in the back of your head.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.