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,

T. S. Eliot

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Cameron Diaz

Whatever happens, I owe him, ... He's right there when you need him, and I'm not ashamed to say I needed him a lot.

John Hicks

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

Roxane Gay

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess that's what I hated about him.

John English

I'm ashamed of what I've done. I've let down a lot of people,

Alex Johnson

I know we have not been able to dramatically improve the team because we don't have an owner. Bud Selig ought to be ashamed of himself for the way he has conducted this process.

Scott Cohen

I'm guilty of buying gas mask and plastic wrap after 9/11. I'm ashamed of it. But they're still sitting in my closet.

Edward Furlong

I'm not really ashamed of who I am, but publicity for me is not really about letting people know who Eddie is inside.

Justin Duberman

Jaime will sign an NHL contract this summer. He doesn't have anything signed yet but it's not an issue.

Carlo Ancelotti

I would say it's impossible because I have a contract with Milan which I'm trying to respect.

John Antil

He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.

Andy Pafko

He just put the contract on the table and said, 'Would you mind signing?'

Willie Randolph

He'll be here in a couple days -- it might even be tomorrow, ... There's nothing in his contract about it. We just told him we wanted him back. We want him to come back and help us.

Ray Yeakley

Guys who are now testing positive for hepatitis C more than likely contracted it in the 1980s or late 1970s when it wasn't understood what hepatitis C was.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Rod Marinelli

I was disappointed when it happened to me and I'm disappointed for Joe now. But he did sign a contract and he knew this could happen from the very beginning.

Richard Curtis

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

John DeVries

Katie was playing well. She'd get herself open and put herself in position to score ... she makes things happen.

Jeremy Baker

Kate Moss has got to suffer, throw herself to public opinion and plead for mercy, and then she can rebuild her career.

Tina Deese

Holly was big. She was in the pen, and I told her to get herself right physically, get herself right mentally, and she did. She did that very well.

Debi Bell

I really wanted her to succeed. She had such high standards for herself and (her son).

Stephen Gillers

The justice is a law into himself or herself on that issue.

Kent Evans

It was just a boy's name, ... Even in the movie, (the name Madison is) a joke. She named herself after Madison Avenue. But that's where it comes from.

Owen Meredith

Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man

Debbie Dool

She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself.

Doug Caskey

This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out of her life.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Simone de Beauvoir

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Sophia Amoruso

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

Heyneke Meyer

He will play, but I'm not saying where.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Lisa Love

He doesn't take short cuts. He's very methodical, calculated.

Samuel Rogers

To know her was to love her.

Samuel Richardson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

Love is not a volunteer thing.