Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Jonathan Ames

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

Ally Carter

Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.

Patricia Highsmith

I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

Fanny Burney

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Jay Leno

Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

David Ogilvy

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

Matt Rosoff

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could double (its online advertising revenue) in three to five years.

Jason Calacanis

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

John Sharpe

I think it's a great opportunity for the spotlight to get swung over to Nashville as an advertising center.

Rick Keilty

I think it's a fair statement to say the advertising base has been wrecked. We're in the process of strategizing how we'll deal with that now.

Jeff Lanctot

I think it reflects that there is a commitment to online advertising, there is a recognition that is part of a long-term retail strategy.

John Kimball

I think it is a real stretch to say the decline of department store advertising has forced layoffs at any one newspaper.

Cai Zixing

I also hope that schools, teachers and parents in the country will enhance their awareness of children protection and keep their kids and students away from advertising activities.

Eliot Spitzer

H&R Block is a company that has been advertising itself quite consistently as being in your corner. I think it is fair to say that they have not been in your corner but have been putting customers in the corner instead.

Graeme Base

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.