Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Blaine

When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.

Ted Koppel

He and I joked the last time I went up to visit just a few days ago that between the two of us we'd put in 83 years at ABC News. ... He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.

Roone Arledge

He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggling days of ABC News.

Michael Eisner

If I had told you a year ago that a single innovative quiz show would be a catalyst to bring ABC back to dominance, you would probably thought I was sprinkling a little too much pixie dust,

G. H. Hardy

Clearly, our job here at ABC is to protect the rights of the open-shop (nonunion) contractors to compete in this market. But it is an empirical fact that the overwhelming majority of canceled projects fall into this category.

Josh Holloway

I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.

Aja Naomi King

I think it's well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes - I'm a huge 'Scandal' and 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.

Jeffrey Schneider

Despite being private communication between two colleagues, the e-mails caused great embarrassment to ABC News, and the sentiments expressed in them were outrageous. Green has expressed his regret and ABC News has made it clear to the White House and to Secretary Albright that this is not the way we do business.

Dennis Wharton

She'll be talking presumably about the deal where they're doing popular ABC shows for free online the day after they actually air. That raised a lot of eyebrows at TV stations. There will be a panel discussion after that where they'll talk about new revenue opportunities in new distribution.

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Konrad Adenauer

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Dwight Phillips

I wanted to break the world record, but the conditions did not allow that.

John Fair

Sales move too fast for us to allow that.

Tom Reynolds

The same thing is true with demand on our water. We're being very careful to monitor our water system as best we can to make sure that we're not going to demand more than we can provide. And then we have to take into consideration as we're doing our wastewater-management program that we do it to allow for this growth rather than just do what is necessary to get by right now. We have to look down the road further to include a growth factor - so that we don't have to do this every 10 years.

Thomas Taylor

The ruling by the attorney general will allow the board to maintain a level playing field for all members.

Frank Beamer

I've seen those knee braces save a bunch of knees. There's no question in my mind that Reggie Butler would be operated on right now if he hadn't had that knee brace on. It was a tough blow right to the knee, but the brace didn't allow the knee to bend to where something would be completely torn.

Fred Hassan

These changes allow us to focus even more effectively on the needs of our customers in different markets, to better manage and drive growth and to build a competitive edge through innovation, speed and flexibility.

David Hobbs

The SEC doesn't allow companies to use all data at their disposal.

James Tate

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Alice Temperley

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

Adlai Stevenson

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Astro Teller

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

Doug Liman

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

D. B. Sweeney

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

David Twohy

You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Gene Luen Yang

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

Michael McMillian

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

Paula Otto

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

David Hamilton

Everyone wants to do the right thing and meet the spirit of the legislation. The language now leaves so much up to each municipality. We need a cohesive plan that addresses everyone.

Stephane Mallarme

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe.

Czeslaw Milosz

Language is the only homeland.

Conrad Hall

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Confucius

In language clarity is everything.

Roland Barthes

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Stephen Sondheim

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Jane Austen

The less said the better.

Jackie Sanchez

We're just trying to be consistent. We're not a team that's been consistent, nor were we tonight.

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Timothy Noah

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Dominic Pacyga

First of all, this is a North Side town. You don't get a lot of respect on the South Side.

Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.