Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dalton

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

Tom Schrader

We're primarily up because we're oversold and oil is down. The breadth is decent, but the volume is low. There's just not much of a catalyst to move us.

Jay Rasulo

It is impossible to describe the breadth and depth of Marty's contributions.

Rob Bois

Today, it doesn't match the full breadth of other on-demand CRM offerings, but they're headed in that direction.

Kathleen Ligocki

Renee brings tremendous breadth of experience to Tower. Her energy, insight, and international depth will be crucial as Tower Automotive emerges from reorganization and continues to grow as a successful global automotive supplier.

Mark Loughridge

reflect the breadth and flexibility of our business model and put us back on track for the rest of the year.

Wayne Worner

Part of the price of maintaining community schools is that you don't have the richness or breadth of curriculum that other places may have.

Chris Jackson

PC-Duo v4.0 is the most extensive and comprehensive update to our flagship product suite in years. New and existing customers will notice a dramatic improvement in the breadth of depth of enhanced product capabilities, all in the same high-performance, scalable and flexible desktop management offering we've had for years.

Deborah Fallows

If there is an overall pattern of differences here, it is that men value the Internet for the breadth of experiences it offers, and women value it for the human connections.

Matt Frewer

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

John Mackey

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

Dan Tuck

Kingsley is the hardest course out there, so I thought the girls ran well.

John Hewson

I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a movement in due course within the Liberal Party and within the National Party to throw these people out.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

Scott Tucker

I would spend days looking for these creatures, and of course I wanted to spend time with my wife Eva and my daughter Daphne, so I take them with me,

Michael Chertoff

Katrina was a crash course in things that worked well and didn't work well.

Dan Reeves

Keith Brooking of course is the worst injury. He does have some chipped vertebrates in his back. How long that will be I don't know, a lot of it depends on when the soreness goes away,

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Daniel Petrie

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Stan Brand

What you have discovered is a discrepancy between being a high-ranking leadership person and a person who isn't.

Andrew Lochart

Hackers have discovered IM; it's the new playground for them.

Jasmine Tookes

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

Wendy Kopp

There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Jerry Only

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Barry Long

The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Albert Camus

At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate, ... He is stronger than his rock.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Bob Gumbita

He's back, and he looks a hundred percent.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Sass Jordan

just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

Woody Allen

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Woody Allen

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

Richard Ford

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Waters

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

George H. W. Bush

require more sacrifice, more time and more resolve.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Richard Cooper

He seemed to know more than a little about just about everything.

J. C. Watts

He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, ... We don't know, really, what he was up to. There were some pretty strange writings.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Mark Foley

His strength was his strength. He seemed super-human.

Elbert Higginbotham

We thought we'd take the scenic route. Every time we took a corner, it seemed like we took a wrong corner.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Tim Barrett

I think they wore us down. We were struggling getting into our half-court offense.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Niranjan Shah

We are struggling to give three suitable venues to the ICC for the tournament.

Gerard Houllier

We are struggling to get tickets, even for the technical study group.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Steve Holloway

We've been struggling all year, but this win was really amazing.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Robert Sarver

It could be on schedule; it could be three years from now.

Sidney Siller

It could be two or three years away.

Jeff Hironaka

I thought we were able to negate their big three (offensive stars), at least doing enough to frustrate them. At the other end, we were able to get decent, high-percentage shots.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Jeff Burton

I threw it away after the first week.

Mark Prior

I threw a lot in the first inning,

Yvette Girouard

I thought Dani was magnificent tonight. I thought she threw as well as she's thrown in a while.

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Rick Jackson

We threw it away and they went down and got a two-point lead.

Owen Elias

Ha, ha! We threw one of these away.

Rajon Rondo

Patrick, he threw a chair. He got really red. We were all really excited.

Tommy Maddox

If you threw it up into the air, it did one thing, ... or if you threw it down on the ground, it would do another thing.

Blake Mitchell

I had him. It was a little out route. I threw a little too far. That's the way it goes.

Robert Creeley

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Rick Danko

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.