Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Fred Thompson

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

Jimmy Carter

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

James Patterson

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

James Patterson

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Angela King

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Douglas Brinkley

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Janet Evanovich

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

Jeff Pustina

I think we might have to extend the deadline tonight.

Kalman Chany

Be careful, because some deadlines are for when the applications need to be postmarked, some are for when they need to be received and some are for when they need to be processed,

Rich Thompson

The funny thing is, it's not about the answer, it's how you react. All the interviewer is trying to do is derail you. If you throw a question like that and they shut down, that's probably not the person you want on your floor at deadline time.

Angie Murphy

It's stressful. There's a high workload - lots of deadlines to meet. This is a special group of kids. They have to be motivated.

Bruce Teitelbaum

There isn't a deadline and I don't want to say that it will be done in the next 24 hours or 72 hours. There are so many rumors and speculation floating around -- all I'll say is he is seriously thinking about this. He knows he has to make a decision. And when he comes to that decision he'll say so.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Joey Spatafora

The big thing is grants that are tied to this, meetings that are tied to this. You know those deadlines don't change. They're not particularly sympathetic to that.

Lauren Asplen

Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).

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.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.