Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Dick Cheney

The senator has got his facts wrong, ... I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Brian Riedl

The Senate is clearly dragging its feet on spending reform. Some senators have called for instead reversing the tax cuts.

Jeffrey Lieberman

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, ... But it's also clear that we need new treatments.

Jonathan Loynes

The stronger tone of recent data was clearly enough to prompt most members of the MPC to vote to keep interest rates on hold today, but we would not be surprised if the decision was rather closer than the markets seemed to think.

Tom Daschle

The strong-arm tactics being used by the administration are clearly backfiring,

Stephen Cheetham

The Smart plant in France is more a liability than an asset. It's clearly the wrong place to be making that car.

Robert Wayman

The slowdown has clearly become global in scope, and visibility is still very limited.

Darrell Arthur

(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.

Sally Shurtz

It was very emotional for the seniors and for the coaches. Every game that the seniors play, they know it's getting closer and closer to their last game.

Mike Singletary

It was tough to hear that (I needed surgery) at first. I'd played through the summer (in an AAU season) with my knee giving me trouble. I thought I could work past it or put it off. Then they went in and took a closer look and saw that there were a lot more tears than what they originally thought.

Dave Esquer

It was tough today. On days like today this park can keep games a lot closer than they should be.

Gary Doherty

It was tough not having those kids, but I saw some good things from the kids that filled in for them. We made (Walpole) earn everything, but they just executed on their passing game. The game was a lot closer than the scoreboard indicated.

Gail Patton

It was a lot closer than the score. That was the longest match of the day.

Steve Wilmot

It was a lot closer than people thought.

Sam Salamone

It was a lot closer than I wanted it to be.

Bill Castle

It was a lot closer than 35-7. Venice deserves a lot of credit. They are well-coached and I respect them. They played us down to the wire.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Fionnuala Earley

November's data suggests that the market has settled back down to the pattern of small rises in some months and small falls in others, with prices overall growing only very slowly.

Rob Lloyd

Tech stocks have performed quite well considering third quarter earnings weren't anything to write home about. We need to see some more positive data points for these stocks to go to the next level.

Richard Shelby

Technology-driven proposals promoting electronic delivery of proxy materials and the use of interactive data will empower shareholders to make better informed investment decisions.

Soichiro Monji

Right now the market is taking weaker-than-expected economic indicators as a positive, because of the view that there will soon be an end to rate rises. But I think the jobs data is likely to be stronger than expected, so it may weigh on U.S. stocks.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Brian Dolan

Rather than indicating any rise in inflationary pressure, the data out ... with today's prices paid are pointing to receding inflation pressures.

Andrew Serwin

The search query data could have shown why filtering software doesn't always work.

William Conroy

These applications are working with real-time data feeds, ... Our traders need millisecond response times.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Prakash Karat

The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.

Graham Thorpe

The selectors have made their decision and they will be happy with the way things have gone - you can't argue,

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Joe Biden

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.

John Ashcroft

And we seek to hold them as suspected terrorists,

Matthew Peterson

Fixed-income returns, after taxes and inflation, tend to be very low, ... If you're under 45, I'm not sure you should even hold bonds.

Trevor Linden

Bettman and the owners hold the key to getting the season under way.

Robert Kerr

Be smart, not scared. If they do the scared thing and someone grabs hold of them, then they'll kick and hit, and it won't get them anywhere.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Colen Garrow

The SARB will probably do nothing with interest rates when it meets next week.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

James Dutkiewicz

The statement opened up the possibility that the interest rate going to 4 percent isn't 100 percent guaranteed.

Brian Gregory

I've been very pleased with the interest we're seeing in the enterprise; we're talking 1000 or 1500 seats.

Hugh Johnson

The worry is that the lid, or the cap, on interest rates is now off.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

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

Russ Jones

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

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

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

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

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.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Benjamin Disraeli

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

George Whalin

I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,

Jim Butcher

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Alice Cooper

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

Donald Trump

We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were in Iraq, we should have never left the way.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Steve Israel

I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Tom Brokaw

Votes are something that you earn.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.