Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Hongzhi

It is forbidden, and these people will be punished according to the law,

Stephen Wren

What is a patent troll? According to some, a patent troll is a firm who licenses patents they do not themselves commercialize. Yet, many of the large firms who are most critical of the practice do it themselves.

Mikel Olaciregui

We make festivals according to the films that are out there now. We've tried to do a balanced selection of interesting films responding to a great variety of tastes.

O. Singh

In the Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Messenger of Death is the enemy of life, but he acts according to the Lord s Command.

Ed Wade

I just talked to Rob and he said it bothered him a little bit in the start in San Francisco and then in his last start in New York. At that point he talked to (pitching coach Rich Dubee) about it. (Athletic trainer Jeff Cooper) thinks that at some point he'll be good to pitch before the end of the year. But he won't be ready for Sunday. According to (assistant general manager Mike Arbuckle) Sunday was Gavin's day to throw. He'll join the club (Saturday) and pitch on Sunday.

Jane Lindskold

I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements.

Gerald Coleman

Because, according to him, (hockey) was a white man's game and I should be playing basketball because I was the second-tallest person in our high school.

Jonathan Brown

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.

Jason Schultz

I have no first hand experience with these lawyers, but according to Ray's papers, the RIAA has hired two sets of lawyers, one to be good cop and one to be bad,

Dennis Patterson

It apparently was a similar type deal. They operated the same pitch, the same approach, no matter the government level.

Tony Blair

Having read in the papers that apparently I was warned of the chaos that was going to ensue in Iraq, I actually got the minute Jack sent me. It didn't do anything of the sort,

Alan Feldman

Here we watch it minute by minute. When you force it underground, anything is possible. Apparently that's a risk the NCAA is willing to take.

Chris Rankin

What is believed at this point, based on information obtained after the accident, is that she had a flat tire, and she apparently stopped the car in the traffic lane, ... From the preliminary investigation, we believe she stopped in the northbound lane and she had her hazard lights on.

Mark Valley

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Meaghan Jette Martin

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Ryan Baker

I noticed nothing was tampered with. All my gas was apparently there from the night before.

David Vitter

I just think the state is going to have to be involved in that helpful way, ... I just want to express my deep frustration about folks in Baton Rouge who apparently are completely focused on why this can't work instead of figuring out how to make it work so we can get these communities through these very crucial next several months.

Nick Harkaway

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

Mitch Kapor

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Mary Schmich

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Nick Offerman

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Pia Zadora

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

Leighton Meester

Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Thomas Morabito

They've been turning around for years now, and right now they're embarking on the latest phase of the turnaround.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Donna Mitchell

We sent the letter registered mail with confirmation to the TSA. We got confirmation back that they had received it. That was at the end of March 2005.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Terry Pratchett

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Rainbow Rowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover of letters loves power too.

Karen Joy Fowler

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Gary Barnett

The letter is part of a strategy to prolong things.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Battaglia

If the price of the stock drops, you could owe more in taxes than the value of the stock.

George Parks

I owe this all to Mr. Harris; he's the man. If it weren't for him I wouldn't be here.

Kellyn Flanagan

Shawn has always been in the picture. I owe a lot of what I have accomplished to him.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Ryne Sandberg

We here today owe America's pastime a strict policy.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Mohammed Kamal

For the first time, a president will owe his power to the people.

Rich Miller

We owe Pawtucket something. They played us very tough.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Rick Ford

If you look at the East, just about every team on paper has improved. There's some teams out there that nobody's talking about that are going to be much better.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Romola Garai

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

Chris Nelson

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

Suzanne Vega

I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Kenneth Fisher

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Shimon Peres

It's a very sad day and a very serious situation. And the first and most urgent task is to return from shooting to talking,

Christie Collins

(The VEDP personnel) will return to Danville in several weeks to give ways that we can work with Danville to help.

Javier Solana

They have to think, they have to return to negotiating ? the temperature has to be lowered.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Brian Glenn

It's a shame. We had just sent all our payments in.

Gary Morgan

It's very complicated what we're doing. We're just making sure what we sent out was accurate.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'