Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Keller

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Ian Mckellen

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.

Scott Turow

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

Kate Warne

Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other.

Luis Padilla

We have begun to aggressively implement best-practices throughout the company and have put stringent controls into place to improve inventory turns and working capital efficiency. We believe that we will be able to reach a point of break-even cash flows by the close of fiscal 2006.

Leslie Ballin

We have begun the evaluation process she has seen a psychiatrist on Friday. It's my understanding the evaluation is not being close to being completed.

John Fletcher

We have begun the development of Coles Myer's next five-year strategic plan, which will consider ownership options for our Myer business, including retention, de-merger and trade sale.

Mark Davis

We have begun investigations as to the extent of the injury, but as yet it's too early to say exactly what the repercussions are. We are monitoring the situation and there will be a scan this week.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

David Byrne

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Holmes

The outlook looks very positive for gold because we keep finding ourselves testing the highs rather than testing the lows.

Bill Burr

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

David Wenham

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew those people that I'd seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.

Bill Bryson

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Aaron Zebley

We could have set about finding them, obviously. We could have shared this information with our law enforcement partners on the federal, state and local levels. We could have shared this with our intelligence partners too, and the Secret Service.

Aaron Zebley

We could have set about finding them, obviously.

Patrick Ness

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Matt Cutts

We'll probably also need some assurances that such pages won't reappear on the sites before the domains can be re-included.

Einar Stefferud

MHTML makes sure that everything you need for that page is in the bundle.

Maya Angelou

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Chauncey Billups

Like I've been telling him, when they page you, you'd better be ready to pick up and answer. Right now, he's going to get that page.

Fred Thompson

To have 27 pages ripped out that were under a congressional subpoena, and then not taking vigorous steps to find out what happened, is outrageous,

Brad Hutt

We're on the same page with pitch selection. It's been fantastic.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Andrew Wright

This is not about publishing to the world.

Russell Perreault

I don't think there's any such thing as a coincidence in publishing anymore.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.