Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Richard Rohr

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Kevin McCarthy

(The) 2006 outlook appears less robust than we would have thought.

David Rogers

The acquisition climate appears to be slowly improving.

Mark Zauderer

The appellate court said there's a lot of evidence to bring the case again. But the risk is it appears to look vindictive. And if they lose, it puts in jeopardy the government's theories on obstruction of justice. They've already heightened the public consciousness about the necessity to preserve documents. A loss could communicate the message that it's difficult to prosecute these kinds of cases.

Bill Dreher

The announcement by Neiman Marcus...makes us as concerned as we have ever been that this Christmas will be extremely lackluster. It appears now the high-end consumer is beginning to scale back their purchases, which does not bode well for the holiday season. This type of thing is clearly going to have an impact on other high-end retailers.

Bill Carroll

That was the test to see if they still had a big enough following to carry over to Sunday night. And it appears that it didn't.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

Virginia Postrel

Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

Ninon Lenclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

Carl Rogers

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

Bethenny Frankel

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Charles R. Swindoll

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

Randy Martin

The 6 percent option is the wiser choice. (Asking for) 10 percent is like going double or nothing ? 6 percent seems like it would be a lot easier to sell. It seems to be the reasonable choice to me.

Richard Notebaert

The American people have called for choice (in long-distance services), ... Ameritech is stepping forward to make it happen.

Jim Tressel

That wouldn't have been my first choice. But I can't have it back.

Tina Turner

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

Gene Ween

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Cecelia Ahern

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Ashton Kutcher

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

Bertrand Russell

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

Chris Terrio

Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,

Sarah Ferguson

We are divorced, we are friends, and we are good parents

Harvey Korman

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

Alan Levine

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even move people to other homes he owned. But when it comes to patient safety, it's nonnegotiable.

John Biggs

We have a group of very expensive lawyers working on this investigation, including through weekends. Given that, I don't know what more we can do.

Rajat Jain

Valuations are not cheap, that's what worries me. But it probably will get more expensive before it gets cheaper.

Barney Frank

I think they're making a mistake, not just because it's expensive but because a hotel just isn't a good place to live,

Grover Norquist

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

Christie Brinkley

You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

H. Hart

We don't have such a policy. It is very expensive to increase reserves for the sake of it. The money can be better spent on other social needs.

Doug MacLean

He is an expensive player, but we feel good about it.

J. J. Johnson

I feel stupid. I was stupid. It was an expensive lesson but I learned my lesson.

Lynn Johnson

Noisy from about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, messy all over the sidewalks.

Georgina Chapman

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Meredith Ostrom

I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.

Toby Dodge

It's pretty messy and I think ultimately it won't do anything positive but just aggravate the violence.

John Galsworthy

Beginnings are always messy.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Michael Lynch

We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.

Rutina Wesley

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Lance Bass

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.

Richard Mitchell

We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.

William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Maeve Binchy

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

Jeff Lindsay

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Paul Gallagher

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Michelle Gomez

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Gordon Strachan

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Denis Law

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Andy Murray

I am Scottish. I am also British.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Michael Scott

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Melissa George

My background is Scottish.