Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Allaire

This leadership transition is consistent with the Board's plans developed last year when I returned as CEO and Anne was named president and COO. The plan called for a gradual transition of leadership with Anne becoming CEO when the Board was confident of the effective execution of Xerox's turnaround. Clearly, this requirement has been met.

Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Linda Foy

The bulk of the damage was due to tree limbs coming down on wires, and Anne Arundel was simply where we had more tree limbs come down.

Edmund White

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Sue Bird

This is a women's league. It's important to have coaches like Anne trailblazing away. ... Women are in the minority for head coaching positions. Anne is kind of the one carrying the load.

James Edmondson

You see the characters capable of wonderful and shabby behavior. Anne is more complex. She?s the one you see make the journey. She gives her inner thoughts. She?s very harsh on her mother. I think the characters are richer.

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

Bernadette Baldino

Anne was very committed to giving to others. She was a person of great faith and always had a great sense of global community. She wanted to be part of the solution.

Henry Wallace

Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.

Jason Olim

Historically, we have captured all of our international sales by default.

Scott Silliman

I think the court is going to have to take it. This is a vital case on the principle of an American citizen captured in the United States and what constitutional rights does he have.

Bruce DiVaccaro

It has a clean and simple style to it; very simple. It has a nice, graceful shape. I was told it captured the personality of that duck.

Bill Pascrell

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Regan Berkley

In general, elk numbers and composition in Unit 48 exceed our objectives. This year's estimate represents a significant increase in elk numbers over the past several years. Potential causes for this increase include fluctuations in winter weather conditions over the past few years and possible changes in seasonal migration patterns from Units 43 and 44 to Unit 48. We are currently plotting the locations of cows with radio collars to see how they have moved between where they were captured in the summer and where they are now.

Dan Rosensweig

The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.

Mark Gordon

It's not a formula. It's all about the way she looks at the world and the way her characters speak and feel and act and react. Her voice has captured the imagination of the public. That's not something you can re-create.

Jonathan Wilkinson

This is a very exciting fixture and has already captured the imagination.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

E. O. Wilson

Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,

Robert Kramer

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

George Sewell

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Thomas Malory

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Myles Munroe

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Neal Katyal

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Matt Frewer

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

Stephen Sondheim

It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good

Derrick Williams

He can throw a real nice deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Scott Harris

Helena is a deep team and very experienced. If we knock off one or two teams in doubles we have the possibility of winning the match.

Joe Logan

Half-court execution is something we've worked on. We still look to run, but as you get deeper into the MAAC, you have to score in the half-court.

Torrey Smith

I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Andrew Wiles

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Daniel Kim

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

Charlotte Curtis

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Sara Gruen

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Vladimir Nabokov

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Russell Brand

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Richard Davidson

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

William Martin

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Uma Thurman

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Walter Bagehot

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Saint Francis de Sales

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Mike Love

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

Henepola Gunaratana

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Ralph Inge

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Joe Roth

In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,'

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Patti Smith

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Randall Upshaw

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Owen Heimer

The scale of theft exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this city,

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Chris Sienko

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

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

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

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

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.