Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Howard

his presence would not be conducive to the public good.

Liu Jianchao

It conforms to the interests of all parties and is conducive to regional peace and stability.

John Schmidt

It didn't have anyone's prints on it, ... because the rubber grip wasn't conducive to prints. We had an expert from the crime lab testifying about why there were no prints.

Bob Wallace

There is ample parking for games. But there's not a lot of surface-lot parking, which is necessary and conducive to tailgating.

Jim Hendry

He has a lot of intangibles that are conducive to success. He has the personality and makeup to handle tough spots. He didn't shy away from difficulty during a tough rehab.

Harry Aleman

I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.

Mark Kelley

And it does take longer for response times, especially this time of the year, when the weather's not conducive to traveling.

Toshihiro Wada

The global economy is in good shape. The environment is conducive to taking risks for now, so we'll remain overweight in stocks and underweight in bonds.

Liu Jianchao

conducive to the Iraqi people taking their destiny into their own hands, and to realizing peace and stability in Iraq.

Steve Ralston

I was in the right place at the right time . . . if I had missed that one, it would have been embarrassing,

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Herb Sendek

I thought we were quick to settle for the 3. At the same time, we did miss some open shots.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

Justin Gamester

We track the weather all day. We could get 3 to 7 inches, or the storm could miss us.

Phil Jackson

When he's playing well, we really have a special team. When he's not playing well, we really miss him.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Wright

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Rebecca West

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

Russell Banks

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.