Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Foote

During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament.

William Greider

A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.

Chaim Potok

Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.

John Sladek

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Kate DiCamillo

The story is about what happens when you share your heart with somebody else; it is also about the danger of keeping things locked up.

David Brock

The subject of a vicious and false attack. Those are the kinds of things people should be looking for and be very careful and concerned about.

Michael Chabon

The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.

John Sladek

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

Drew Cassidy

Avalon will provide first class customer service, as every Avalon member, employer or producer will be connected to a live voice at all times, and not be subjected to an automatic telephonic prompt system. By keeping people connected, Avalon answers questions quickly and rectifies problems the first time, creating a more efficient and consumer friendly experience.

Ron Suskind

Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'?

Fox Mulder

Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.

Cynda Crawford

Despite the rumors on the Internet and elsewhere, this disease is not as deadly as some have made it seem. We don't have all the answers yet, but we are looking at a mortality rate on the order of 5 to 8 percent of dogs that become infected.

Nancy Powell

answers each child's questions and she shares information about herself.

Conrad Wolfram

Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.

Jim Hunt

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

Gordon Strachan

Apologies to Andreas, but I have not seen him play and I don't really know his name, so that kind of answers the question,

Craig MacDonald

The story of the Steamship Portland and its fatal last run from Boston to Portland, Maine, has intrigued maritime historians for years due to the wide-ranging reported sightings of the ship during the storm. This mission allows us to start putting some answers to the questions about its loss.

Philip Klapwijk

This is not a rally being driven by fundamentals. In essence, it's being driven by the weight of money that's coming into the market. I think that flow will not cease or reverse. It'll probably increase.

Ashwin Sanghi

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

William Winter

When will the dead world cease to dream,When will the morning break?

Mason Cooley

Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Jim Norris

I don't think the love and support will cease today, ... It will continue.

Anthony D'Angelo

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anne Bronte

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

Cardinal Ratzinger

the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.

Kent Hendershot

That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to go out and jump on them. I thought our pressure was pretty effective tonight. We threw a lot of stuff at them and I don't think they ever got in any kind of rhythm.

Peter Power

That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.

Bill Doran

You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

Carnie Wilson

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Stacey Stegman

We know it was bad. It was worse than a normal weekend.

Suzanne Somers

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

Bob Schieffer

Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.

Stuart Rose

The sum total of all this demonstrates that Philip Green's offer significantly undervalues the business,

Robert Watson

Space is one of the reasons we couldn't offer full-day kindergarten

Jeanne Ashley

So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.

John Chiles

Texas made me an offer. It was over the phone. He just talked to me about Texas and talked to my coach. They're recruiting me as a quarterback and I like that. It was a big offer for me.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.