Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Watkins

I think the president has it correct. We are addicted to foreign energy sources, almost to the point where we are captives. Our nation grapples with going 8,000 miles away to try to protect our energy sources.

George Abbott

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

Francis Clines

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

Dyan Cannon

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back.

Rick McCallum

He loves his wife so much that he thinks he is doing something to protect and save her, ... But what he's really doing is he's getting addicted to power. The more power he gets the more he wants and then once you do that, there's nothing left because you're willing to sacrifice everything. At the end of the day, Anakin sacrifices his family. He does fulfill his destiny after another 25 years and lets his son live and basically dies redeeming himself. But he goes through a lot of s--- and causes a lot of pain to people for a long time.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Mary Lambert

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

Jonathan Bishop

I personally don't see the Internet as what the people are being addicted to. I see it as the social experiences that are offered by the Internet that people are addicted to.

Kim Beason

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

Mary Isselhard

We've found old newspaper articles that mention sleds and when we do our speaking programs we ask individuals who attend whether they have any diaries from family members that might mention sledding. People mail us information from old diary passages that mention sledding parties.

Carl Sewell

It gets a little tiresome to read articles from people who don't understand the situation and continue to pick on someone who is working so hard.

Steve Hofstetter

I was living on a bunk bed in my father's spare room, ... I'm getting all these articles pumping me as the next big thing, and I'm like, do you guys know what my life is like?

David Behring

I don't believe my father ever felt embraced. From the beginning, there was an outpouring of negative articles from the media and a lot of backlash.

Umberto Eco

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin couldn't not have noticed the articles in The Globe and Mail. That began in 1999, and it wasn't until February of 2004 that he reacted.

Mike McCue

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

Mark Johnson

I guess the thinking is, if this magazine delivers one movie based on one of its articles in the first couple of years, that's a big success.

Julie Klausner

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Howard Wolfson

he wants to avoid for as long as possible talking about national issues.

Robert McClure

He wanted to avoid a full-scale food fight. He wanted to make certain that she was not open to strong opposition from the left." ()

Marc Bulger

He definitely hunted me down like that. But it's football. I could've easily avoided him and ran away. But those things happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Bruce Gordon

He is our secret weapon to help young African-Americans avoid gangs. We want to save his life so he can save the lives of others.

David Wyss

Greenspan has had the most successful tenure in Fed history. He kept inflation under very tight control while avoiding any major recessions.

Pan Yue

Green GDP deducts ecological and environmental losses. It is able to more fully test and measure the quality of economic development and avoid false achievements.

Christine Whitman

has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers throughout ... the world.

Michael Friedman

I was inspired by the brilliant minds of the doctors treating me. I had always considered becoming a doctor. Now I know what specialty I want to go into.

Jim Sahnger

I wouldn't say it's a crisis. But it's certainly becoming more difficult for first-time buyers.

Henry Harteveldt

I would not rule out Boeing becoming partners with one of the winning bidders and getting in through the back door.

Larry Brown

Jamal, to me, is becoming our best perimeter defender. When did we think that would happen?

John Niven

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

Brian Idalski

Katy has really stepped up as a leader. As a sophomore, to be that much of a leader is something. She is on her way to becoming something special.

Rosemary Haefner

Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions.

George Terrell

I take pride in presenting the best shooter and dunker a prize for being the best in our area. We're looking forward to the 3-point contest and dunk contest becoming an event that people in our community can enjoy.

Kiichi Murashima

I think it is gradually becoming a given that the BOJ will at some point next year end its quantitative easing policy.

Ryan Sims

There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general consensus doesn't provide the details needed for funding, so we are collecting this data to solidify the consensus into a concrete form.

Walt Kyle

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

Ron Moody

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Tracy Byrd

Our Labor Day concert has taken on a larger meaning with the devastation of the hurricane. The show is still free, but we encourage our fans to give as much as they can spare to the Red Cross volunteers who will be collecting at the concert,

Robert Hartman

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Chris Burns

I just started collecting them and writing on them and learning how to place photographs on them.

Billy Beane

I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanford. He's a great player, but he's also a great kid. He's the kind of guy you'd like to have as your son, just a really impressive young man.

Marty Turco

I'm not really forgotten. I'm out there collecting the wins, so that's fine with me.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Scott Skiles

I'm pretty sure Larry invented the game. I'm pretty sure about that.

Darin Strauss

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

Kevin Bleyer

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.

Matt Thomas

As long as they invented football, I'd be OK.

Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Alex Ebert

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Mathieu Amalric

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Ronald Reagan

You are right, ... We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Robert Cray

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Richard Rogers

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Umberto Guidoni

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

Robert Loggia

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

Warren Ellis

Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.

Tyne Daly

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

Rocky Marciano

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Rocco DiSpirito

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Roger Simon

I realize this is a tough time for journalism and for the magazine.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Mahatma Gandhi

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Dave Hill

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Harland Williams

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

Trent Green

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

Woody Allen

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Wilma Mankiller

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

Vince Gilligan

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

Yann Martel

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

William Wordsworth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

William Wordsworth

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Shenstone

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

Theodore Pappas

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

Andrew Wright

This is not about publishing to the world.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

David Howell

Strangely I'm not that disappointed. It was just one of those days, and I just didn't play very well. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Brian Dawkins

It's simple, ... I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. That's not my nature.

David Gunasegaram

This is about striving to be more environmentally friendly.

S. Hughes

One of the things we're striving for as a team is to find the knockout punch. Today we were able to do that.

Juan Torres

Without a (an executive) director, we don't have much. That's what we've been striving for for the whole year.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.