Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Pam Carpenter

We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.

Brooke Smith

I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less.

Francesco Cossiga

It is not acceptable that our soldiers should put themselves at risk or even sacrifice their lives for a fundamentalist, illiberal regime.

Lionel Jospin

It is not acceptable that certain member states indulge in underhand competition to attract international investment and entice European companies to relocate their headquarters.

Noeleen Heyzer

It is not acceptable for women to constitute 70 percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor. Nor is it acceptable for women to work two-thirds of the world's working hours, but earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-tenth of the worl's property. Many fundamental changes must be made.

Ahmed Qurie

It is no longer acceptable to out conditions on reviving the peace process,

Alan Ruskin

(Greenspan's) comments on the economy regaining traction included a range of examples, but all of them have caveats attached, and none are that convincing,

Daisy Ridley

What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

Chuck Hill

I think it's going to show up in some comments. I think you will get some comments that (earnings) would have been better if it hadn't been for the euro.

Charlie Villanueva

It hurt, ... It was my big day, you know. Getting drafted was something I'd dreamed about. To hear all those negative comments was tough.

John Picano

He's a very popular guy. When we didn't have him, that was one of the most often heard comments here.

Chris Wickham

I'm trying to make a decision on bail, and your comments are not helpful to me,

Joshua Shapiro

The Fed comments were fairly unsurprising. They indicated that there is more tightening ahead, and that the pace will be determined by upcoming data.

Markus Steinbeis

The Fed comments are well received by markets in the short-term, particularly for retail shares, on which many funds are underweighted, because consumers might now get more money to spend.

Sylvia Warner

The congressman appreciates the flowers, welcomes the group's comments and is deeply grateful for a free nation and the men and women who defend our right to have an opinion and express it openly.

Matt Blamey

He continues to run with the team and we hope to have him back for the last couple of weeks of the season, in time for districts.

Penny Circle

He continues to respond to treatments and is improving every day.

Chris Thomas

Having a friend like Mike has been a blessing. He kept me on the right track as a youth and continues to be a good friend to me even today.

Dan Ronayne

Harold Ford Jr. continues to forget that he represents the people of Tennessee and not the celebrities of New York and Hollywood.

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Robert Sinche

I think the housing data continues to allay some of the worst fears on how the economy might slow, and has some impact on how the Fed may act next year.

Neal Soss

It is magnificent that inflation continues to be low, but retail sales are smoking.

Kim Farah

He is home now and continues to rest comfortably. We expect he will be able to resume his normal schedule soon.

Larry Beinfest

He is not suspended. He continues to be paid.

Vince Williams

James Dean is a great artist, and I love him.

John Leonard

I think it's an excellent strategic fit, the pricing is fair, and if you look at other institutional-retail combinations like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the synergies are there,

Howard Fineman

If you told me in 2004 that Howard Dean would end up running the Democratic Party months after losing the nomination to John Kerry, I'd have said you were crazy. I think he took the job because he wants to understand the forces that defeated him.

John Edward

Unless I missed something, Governor Dean still has not said he was wrong. Were you wrong, Howard?

Fernando Ascencio

This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way.

Michael Buble

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.

Mike Blake

She toured nationally with Jimmy Dean when he was playing music instead of making sausage. She's still got it, too.

Ken Block

My heart goes out to Dean and Ginger both. We have a long history with them, and we hope for the best.

Tyler Hansbrough

I expected to play well, but it's kind of shocking that I'm playing this well. I never expected, as a young guy, to come into the Dean Dome and drop 40.

Marshall Wittmann

He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Bob Graham

It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

Richard Ford

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Saint Augustine

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Twyla Tharp

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

Brian Ashton

I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Marty Nemko

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

Johnny Walker

I am kind of excited, but I don't want just that. I want to go farther than that.

Dusty Perdue

I just let them know we want to go one step farther than we went last year.

Andre Roy

I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, that's the way it'll be. You better stop whining and get used to it. The farther you go in the playoffs, the rougher it gets.

Tom Sorrells

The farther you go down south, the more likely it is you get into the big rain.

Dave Lardinois

The farther you are from the city, the less amenities they have.

Winston Churchill

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Grady Sizemore

Throughout the at-bat, I just kept going farther and farther, ... I wanted to see how much they would let me have before they stopped me. They never did, and I told Skins, 'I can take this.'

Lonnie Lawrence

I've never felt so good. We've been playing so well lately. We've made it farther than we have in God knows how many years. We feel real good.

Mac McArthur

These prospective locations are farther from homes than the locations in the past. We're very sensitive to that concern.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Preston Manning

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Ron Paul

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Eric Church

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Ronaldinho

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Wu Bangguo

Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.