Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Hut Landon

The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are fewer bookstores now, but the ones that are left are not only a good place to buy books, but they are also well-run businesses.

Robert Hall

It's rush for fraternities and it's rush for bookstores too.

Christina Baker Kline

It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

Ron Paul

They broke the mold when they decided to do music. If bookstores have coffee, then why can't a coffee store sell books and movies?

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Rachel Cohn

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

Larry McMurtry

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

Paul Krugman

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Mark Dinger

I would say it is a declining number of chain installers because of the popularity of the SUV. We have seen a real drop in the number of people (applying for permits).

John Carrico

What we found was that there were other grocery store chains who had the same need.

Tim Purpura

I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.

Patrick Ho

We suspect that initiatives within its manufacturing operations and a more streamlined supply chain are just part of the reasons for the improved margin profile.

Anthony Chan

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

Scott Burns

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Pat Roberts

I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Saxby Chambliss

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Dalton Chandler

There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think some of these new publicly traded companies are going to survive.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Greg Raleigh

What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what they are already trying to build. We don't think that's in the interest of standards process or consumer.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

William Zinsser

Editors are licensed to be curious.

William Zinsser

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

Woody Herman

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Rebekah Brooks

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

Rebekah Brooks

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

Robin Hobb

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Sara Shepard

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

Robert Mankoff

As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Cindy Sheehan

I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan. I've thought long and hard about her position, which is 'get out of Iraq now.' It would be a mistake for the security of this country.

Hu Shixiang

is willing to work hard with people around the world for the peaceful use of space.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

Jason Chimera

It bounced off Kipper and kind of laid there in the crease. It was nice to see the puck just laying there for you.

David Jones

He laid down the gauntlet and his credibility is on the line,

Bunnie Gleason

He laid around all day and wouldn't open any presents without help. He couldn't really sit up. I just thought he had a virus.

Brent Rumble

I was all by myself, screaming at him. He saw me and laid (the pass) right out there.

James Jackson

He is just laid back and ordinary. He is just easy-going.

Casey Paus

He looks like the surfer boy, laid back guy, and he is.

Kristy Curry

I'll say something in practice or something will happen, and she'll just smile at us and shake her head. She's just very respectful, very laid back, very thankful, very unassuming, very selfless and just very thankful for the opportunity.

David Kelly

In many cases, people who've been laid off in manufacturing should not look to manufacturing to replace their jobs. It's not going to happen.

John Tumazos

Their staffing levels are excessive, in my opinion. This isn't the first time they've laid people off, and I don't think it's the last. They are much, much leaner than they were 20 years ago.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Bob Lewis

Having this large a turnout made it a very special day for the series,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Malcolm Glazer

There is no acquisition that is too large for Zapata to consider,

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Steven Pinker

It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Marc Rotenberg

This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Kara Swisher

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

Maelle Gavet

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Jim Donahue

This is a better time of year to get a late-model car, ... and that will be reflected in the online price.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.