Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Hill

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

John Searles

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Robert Kenneth

It is also an affirmation of state's authority to monitor regulate and determine legitimate medical practice.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Abdallah Baali

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Elaine Pagels

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Richard Murray

There is huge irony here. Six Democrats in Congress were eliminated, but the seventh victim may turnout to be the author of the plan.

Michelle Maxia

We also categorize toys for autistic and blind children.

Gary Ross

I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, they can then compromise.

Joey Harrington

Hold up your end of the bargain. Get out there and bust (your tail) trying to do your best for your teammates. And when you hold up your end of the bargain and you are accountable to everybody else on the team, things fall into place.

Alexis Herman

I think it's a major victory for both parties, ... That's what collective bargaining is all about.

John Roberts

It is not a process under which senators get to say, 'I want you to rule this way and this way and this way, and if you'll tell me that you'll rule this way and this way and this way, I'll vote for you, ... That's not a bargaining process. Judges are not politicians. They cannot promise to do certain things in exchange for votes.

Robin Pemberton

We may be put in a position to make a call that we really don't want to make. The drivers are in control. They've got pedals they can push and steering wheels they can turn. To leave it in our own hands, when we're not out there, they're going to get a call they didn't bargain for.

Lori White

I have faith in the bargaining committee, so I'm hoping it was a fair deal,

Mitsushige Akino

Investors know that the upside resistance (on the Nikkei) is strong at 16,000 points, so the best strategy is hunting bargains when the market sinks.

Robert Broadfoot

If you think Hong Kong's expensive today, wait 'til you see it five years from now. We'll call Tokyo Macy's bargain basement. It is going to be an extremely expensive city. The pressure's going to be on companies always to define what value-added role does Hong Kong have.

Colin Butler

The message is that he has no respect for the people he is bargaining with. ... He should bargain in good faith and defend that contract to the public.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

John Hopkins

There are still a few things we can do to improve lap times, but basically we are pretty pleased with how the weekend's going. It's the first time back since I had the surgery on my foot, the wound has healed and I'm at 100 per cent. I'm happy to be back out on the bike fully fit.

Kevin Young

What we wanted to do is basically design in a social stigma,

Peter Cardillo

Here is a classical story of a stock that is trading under book value. AT&T, the same thing. I believe it is up 4 or 5 points from its low and basically trying to stabilize at these levels, when it is all said and done, it still probably will be the leader of the pack. Again, a company selling under book value,

Rabih Alameddine

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

E. O. Wilson

He's a big kid; he covers a lot of ground. You have really got to work hard and you've got to score on rebounds and their defense did a good job of clearing the net. It's basically a dogfight every shot and rebound in there, and they played it well.

Kelly McBride

Here we have three males on our staff, so you'd basically be dealing with all women.

Mark Turgeon

He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard to get him shots. When Sean banked the shot in, I really thought we were going to win. But they were just too good.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

Ann Veneman

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

Douglas Muzzio

The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending 80% of your time begging for money - it's so debilitating on a candidate.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry control all the levers of the nuclear program, and there's no point begging Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

Michael Pittman

There's thousands and thousands that are coming through, and they're begging and begging for preachers and lay people to come down there and to minister to them. These people have no hope. They need hope, and the only hope they can get is through Jesus Christ. They need people to go down there and share Jesus Christ with them.

Frank Sadowski

It's really a shame. Everyone in the retail community has been begging them to come together on a format. We're not serving the customer by a format war.

Gene Taylor

I've got 14,000 people begging for a place to stay, ... Who's in a position to solve that problem?

Cervantes Saavedra

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Mark Richt

I know that quarterback can run like a deer, that's for sure. Shockley's not quite the runner that he is. Shockley's athletic, but we won't have as many designed quarterback runs for him. A lot of that is because it's really not his nature and the other part is that we wanted to try to keep him healthy this year.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Michael Ramos

The initiative is designed to try to sow fear into our communities.

Ken Holland

The game is designed for skill players, ... and Pavel is as skilled as they come.

Loren Thompson

The crux of this issue is that the Marine force really isn't very well designed for the type of fight it's facing in Iraq.

Alan Packer

These products are designed to be complimentary. We developed them together.

Isaac Mizrahi

Eclecticism is a good thing, ... This stuff is designed to mix. I'm not trying to tell people what they have is not good. (That's) just wasteful, just wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

Jim Rash

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

James Cook

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

Matt Savoie

It's great to know that I have people in Peoria that embrace me and support me throughout my career.

Scott Hamilton

The new scoring system is here to stay, it's not going anywhere. We might as well embrace it.

Bill Russell

It's been cold, but they embraced it. They bundled up. They knew they had to be out hitting the ball, and there hasn't been one complaint.

Ward Grant

It is time to embrace our faith and exercise our pride of being an American. Without fear we must pursue our lives, without reservation we must support our men and women in the military who are protecting our freedoms and our lives and also the uniformed men and women who serve us so well in our communities.

Matt Groening

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

Mark Batterson

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

Tom Crean

Jack and Jackie gave Jim a great value base. He saw how Jack did it and how Jackie supported it. Jim is such a natural leader and a natural competitor. He feels a responsibility to lead people. That's what led him to be a head coach.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Brendan Morrison

Going into to the game, I knew I had to step it up. There's no sense hanging your head about it. You've got to go out and do the little things and help the team win. Last game I felt good, but didn't get too many chances. It feels good to get the first one. I knew it's only a matter of time before I notched my first goal and got a few points.

Brian Cashman

He's always a bright-side type of guy. He feels he's going to be fine and ready and this is small problem.

Josh Green

I was able to stay in shape, though it's not the same as game shape. All around it was pretty good rehab. I should be at 100%. The only thing is the rustiness from being off. The injury feels fine. It's not an issue anymore.

Jamie Mahaffey

He feels very sorry that he's not here. He loves the game of basketball. It's something we can't control, and he wishes he were here.

Scott Baker

He feels it's better to disassociate himself with the situation and not let it become a distraction,

Joe Torre

He feels fine, but when he does all his drills, he still feels it a little. It doesn't hurt or restrict him, but it's there.

Seth Greenberg

He feels bad. He's a very sensitive kid. He's a great kid.

Michael Clarke

We started hugging each other, taking pictures, ... It couldn't have been better.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Brady Bomber

It's going to be a battle. They can shoot the lights out on any night.

Larry Porter

As you can see we don't have any lights on.

Richard Tolbert

They're going to tax people who have to get a payday loan just to keep their lights from being turned off.

Mike Gillian

We wanted them to shoot jumpers and they made them. They were shooting 3s lights out.

Sarah Jones

Did you see any brake lights at any time?

Mark Chandler

What it comes down to (is that) Lachapelle was lights out. He was the man.

Ned Yost

Carlos is one of those special guys. When the lights go on, he's ready to go.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Dan McCarthy

It is a parking lot out there. The lights are shut down because of this. It is just a nightmare.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Robert M. Pirsig

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

Rufus Choate

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Tertullian

Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

C. S. Lewis

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

George Herbert

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Hanya Yanagihara

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

Rick Moody

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,