Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Richard Rohr

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Kevin McCarthy

(The) 2006 outlook appears less robust than we would have thought.

David Rogers

The acquisition climate appears to be slowly improving.

Mark Zauderer

The appellate court said there's a lot of evidence to bring the case again. But the risk is it appears to look vindictive. And if they lose, it puts in jeopardy the government's theories on obstruction of justice. They've already heightened the public consciousness about the necessity to preserve documents. A loss could communicate the message that it's difficult to prosecute these kinds of cases.

Bill Dreher

The announcement by Neiman Marcus...makes us as concerned as we have ever been that this Christmas will be extremely lackluster. It appears now the high-end consumer is beginning to scale back their purchases, which does not bode well for the holiday season. This type of thing is clearly going to have an impact on other high-end retailers.

Bill Carroll

That was the test to see if they still had a big enough following to carry over to Sunday night. And it appears that it didn't.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Barack Obama

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

M. Wolfe

We have to live in the real world and in the real world we generate trash,

Paul Williams

Val IT provides well-researched guidance that helps organizations select investments with the potential to generate the highest returns.

Jeff Gross

My better sense tells me (that many) stoplight tickets issued to metro Des Moines residents and unsuspecting visitors will generate some discontent, if not serious outrage.

Rick Smith

You can have the most incredible speed ever, but if the path and space relationship are off, you'll hit it all over the place. If you don't have the ingredients to try to generate speed, then you need to play within yourself.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Tom Foley

We generate $1 million a day in taxes for the state.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Stephen Byers

We need to recognize that many people feel they are living in a

Bill Ferris

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

Sally Stohler

I'm sitting in my living room wondering why I have so many clocks.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Robert H. Grubbs

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

David Lord

We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent.

Robert Taylor

Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Mark Hutson

That was the main thing, to get out of there without any injuries.

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

John Keegan

We have ample parking, it's just not on the main drag,

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.