Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Bennett

With this bill, we shift the focus to where it belongs, not on controlling speech ... but on the question of to whom you may be beholden in order to get the money to do that. That's where the focus should be.

John Battelle

There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.

Chad Harbach

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

Sam Harris

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

Nigel Lythgoe

I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.

Doug Murphy

Telecom is realizing that they can end-run the networks. For content producers such as ourselves, it's a very dynamic time, because we now have an alternative. We don't have to be beholden to just the broadcasters. They're still the largest way to reach the biggest audience. I don't expect they'll ever go away, but I do think that, in five years, half of the media we consume will be on-demand, and the other half will be linear.

James Mercer

The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.

J. Taylor

The University is beholden to follow New York State law.

Barry Scheck

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense.

Lucas Till

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Geoffrey Kors

The point of the commercial is to continue to build pressure on the governor to sign the bill. His legacy and his place in history is very important to him. We need to remind the governor he is at that place.

John Stone

The point is to find out what would it take to build an interstate.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

John Burnside

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

David Bahlman

Until a building is known for its architectural importance and for the threat that exists to it, it's very hard to galvanize public opinion. Once people understand that's happening, it's a different story.

Larry Lawson

We are proud to build such a sophisticated, 5th Generation stealth fighter that can do things better than we ever imagined.

Denise Garcia

We are pleased to see this building develop into a new opportunity for the Pueblo community to grow and prosper.

Mark Billingham

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Pat Rafter

He's naturally very gifted. Scotty's always been very unique in that way.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Michael Sandler

Of course, we didn't look smart in 1999 owning Philip Morris.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Michael Nutter

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

John Santoro

There is more risk in owning longer-dated securities in a period of rising inflation.

Jim Lowell

Owning the parts tends to be a lot safer and a lot more rewarding,

Mara Brock Akil

I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

Peter Gabriel

It's like owning a big playpen and someone else is going to pay for it,

Will Cuppy

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Amy Jo Martin

Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.

John Carpenter

A lot of things that come out of the university are enabling-types of technologies or platforms that can be licensed.

Michael Burdette

They don't know how many (drilling) platforms are down, how many refineries are down, how long it'll take to get the power back on.

Tony Kushner

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

Chris Donlay

We're just the platform to sell the items. We're not selling anything ourselves, like QVC.

Michael Morse

When it (the crane) moves, the whole platform moves. It's kind of scary,

John Jansen

We went out to inspect this one platform and it wasn't there.

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

Phil Hill

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

Johnny Rivers

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

J. A. Konrath

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Peter Brimelow

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Kale Liechty

It's not like my top priority. It's not an obsession.

William Hall

It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list,

Mike McConathy

It's a little different for us today, going from the top of the world to the trash barrel." ()

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Frank Robinson

It was an explosion. He had to top me, you know?

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.