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american-writer united
Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country. Stewart Alsop
american-writer holds knowledge life worse
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. Jean Stafford
american-writer fifty homesick people percent
Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever
american-writer
But I am the same storyteller as always. Terry Brooks
american-writer
Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me? John O'Hara
american-writer enjoy pleased quality time
Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. Mark Russell
american-writer attempt cannot darkness knowing seeing truth
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. Frank Herbert
american-writer education receptive withhold
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplier
american-writer chiefly generally gets kitten remarkable stopping
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
difference great people product
People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product. Ed Colligan
difference films low people stage time vastly
People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well. Joel Edgerton
difference good news poorest
After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.
difference genetic material percent
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us. Barry Schuler
differences making-a-difference done
This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done? Brad Pitt
differences impact choices
Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother Jane Goodall
differences people littles
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over. James Weldon Johnson
differences history different
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves Jared Diamond
differences equal materials
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
good remembers
As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.
good knocking knows open pick
As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you. Kurt Thomas
good jobs month
Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000. Jared Bernstein
good happen job shot turn
Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.
good shooting
Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.
good held hitting kids middle normally panicked protect quarter shooting shots team third took
Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.
good mountain people realized stages
After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever. Levi Leipheimer
good great hold open
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle. Chris Riddell
good separation
Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.
mere poet
A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind. Benjamin Franklin
mere my-own values
For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value. Charles M. Schwab
mere
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. Theodore Bikel
merely slip spring
To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . . Frank Sinatra
performance
I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.
performance personal played pleased team
I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall. David Beckham
performance promises words
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
performance poor
It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.
performance solid
It was a solid performance, but we can do better,
performance simple terrible
It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that. Rick Carlisle
performance stocks
The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.
performance satisfied
Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.
pieces saw
We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.
pieces puzzles questioned ran
We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.
pieces too-much elements
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. Alejandro Amenabar
pieces networking hardware
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness. Douglas Rushkoff
pieces made feels
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon. Dodie Smith
pieces may way
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me". David Christian
pieces world entertainment
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. David Antin
pieces patient bones
A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. Ambrose Bierce
pieces tradition should
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. Alfred Brendel
theater time-off
I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater. Estelle
theater
Theater dates very quickly. Fiona Shaw
theater movie-theater
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it. Lou Reed
theater
For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.