Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Toby Miller

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,

Kevin Taft

There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.

Victor LaValle

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Robert Lindner

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Mike Frosco

We came down here for a learning type thing. But we hit the ball with authority at times and we made some hard outs.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect of the league. There are a lot more important things. It's a personal goal, and if I make it, it would be the icing on the cake.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Derrek Lee

We get so much fan support, you'd think you'd play well here, but we didn't. It's something we have to get better at.

Fernando Torres

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Rockie Bork

We played good ball, took them to the wire. You have to be proud of the kids because they're trying real hard and they put 100 percent into the game. We just got off to a way too slow start and we had a few too many turnovers. What do you do?

Mike Tice

He'll get prepared for surgery at some point in the next few weeks and then he'll be out for the season. This is just another hurdle we'll have to overcome as a football team.

Olin Browne

I guess there are a few more people who recognize who I am,

Greg Rose

I just don't recall seeing them much until the last few years.

Alex Smith

I rattled a few jars and roared at them at the interval.

Marco Rubio

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Shane Sweet

I personally think that this is going to settle out over the next few days.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Anne Heche

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

Joe Girardi

I want to make sure he is ready, that he's where he needs to be when he gets there so he doesn't get hurt.

Ian Schafer

Once in a while you'll get something like the Wedding Crashers trailer. It gets more people to see the trailer and interact with it in a way they've never been able to before.

Toni Harris

It's not always easy. But once you have a system in place, it gets easier. The thing that works for me is to know their schedules.

Patrick O'Neill

It's not about smoking. It's about who gets to regulate it.

Jessie Evans

It's unfortunate that officiating gets intimidated a little bit.

Wally Szczerbiak

Doesn't matter who gets the shot in the fourth.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Peter Greenaway

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'

Shawn Witherspoon

A lot of people don't know where Murray is, and they don't even know how to say Murray. It's one of those things where we can put our name out there.

John Marks

They've been very strong. They've been aggressive. I think they know they have to make a name for themselves, and they don't have a lot of time to do it.

Yvonne Dillaha

For a long time he could only write his name. He's just about got it down. He can write his name and address, and my name and phone number. It took three years.

Todd Whitaker

They are still under the umbrella and name of the Coca-Cola Company.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.