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.

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Val Kilmer

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Chuck Palahniuk

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

Mark Gaynor

The pins were a little harder today and I think the scores reflected that. Aiken had a pretty big lead and they were going to have to play poorly in order for us to catch up, and that's something they very rarely do.

Denis Napthine

There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.

William Gibson

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

Dave Terre

The 60s are magic. That's when things start to happen. When the temperature gets into the upper 50s, the males start looking for spawning sites. Anglers who start catching the males know that's when the spawn is about to happen.

Gary Turcott

That would've given us a great opportunity. There's nothing you can do about it ... (the refs) can't catch everything.

Xavier Nady

That was tough. If I catch that, there are two outs and the pitcher is up. It's frustrating. In the past, I've been able to hang onto them.

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Paul Harris

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Bill Gates

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Jon Strebe

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

Vedran Pavlek

We followed the race up on the hill, we saw the course, what is necessary for the combined downhill.

Nariman Behravesh

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

Sean Cotter

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Felix Gottwald

We're all separate -- cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping.

Charli Turner

We really wanted to make them work hard and I think they got tired. They were losing the game, and with the fatigue combined it's easy to not have positive responses sometimes.

Graham Murray

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

Pete Fenson

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

Jeremy Burk

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Craig Stinnett

We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.

John Pine

Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.

Bee Wilson

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

James Franklin

We forecast this to be a minimal-strength hurricane.

Chuck Hill

We forecast technology as a whole for 11 percent growth as of Jan. 2. As of March 20, it's at minus 7 percent.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

RL Brown

To forecast the end of this housing market (boom) you need to forecast when people will stop moving here.

Lyle Gramley

Greenspan did not participate in supplying numbers for that forecast -- he refused to do so -- and sometimes in his testimony he didn't even mention the forecast.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Molly Smith

We're mapping to that forecast ... We're very comfortable with where we are.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Joel Fox

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Bob Kelly

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Beth Young

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Clark Kepler

I thought it would resonate, but I'm surprised at the size of it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

Henry Blodget

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

David Liston

They won't want to be taken over by a much smaller bank,

Rick Whatley

Nothing has changed. We are just in a smaller (space). We didn't really need all that space.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.