Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Asher

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

E. Helm

Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs.

Chris Chaney

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system. I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Chris Chaney

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system, ... I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Dean McCarron

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

Nat Friedman

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.

Charles Gerba

Nobody cleans their desk because it's a personal space.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

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.

Mark Schlosser

He's a local favorite. I'm sure it's selling well because of his hometown ties.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Baron

He wants match play, it's his hometown and it works for him.

Kenneth Choi

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

Clementine Paddleford

We all have hometown appetites,

Dan Modzelewski

We wanted to give it a hometown theme where local people tell their story through our paintings.

Bob Peck

It would be terrific to have them back. It's nice to have hometown things you're proud of.

Fred Reid

This is one of the most important markets in the country, yet it has no hometown airline.

Jenson Button

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

John Carver

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

Catherine Martin

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

Roger Szendy

I think it would be a disadvantage to lose local control.

Peter Woolley

I think it will be a local outcome; it's a local fight.

John Hurt

I think it would be really sad if the local people didn't realize how important he was.

Joan Greenberg

I think locally we're seeing more than that.

Eric Newman

Yesterday we finalized plans with a local theater in Tulsa (to show the movie),

Dan Sleeper

We're a local government, we always pay our bills.

David Barry

We really wanted a local flavor, a unique flavor. We wanted to make it different than going out to the Monmouth Mall or the Bridgewater (Commons) Mall.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Bjorn Borg

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Chelsea Handler

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

Guillermo Luz

From the viewpoint of governance, everything has slipped back in a big way.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Dean Winters

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Max von Essen

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Julie Smith

Merkel and Chirac would not have worked particularly well together.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.