Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Doris Williams

I thought I was protecting myself for my declining years.

Rick Whittington

I think the stocks are going to go up from here, ... I think it's too early to start talk of contraction, prices declining and demand faltering.

Rosanne Cahn

Though there are some prices that are declining, in fact deflation means most prices are declining and there's very little evidence that is happening.

Larry Wachtel

On Friday, we had a ratio of 12 to 1 of losers to winners. That's the worst performance since 1997. We also had over 3,000 declining issues. This shows real weakness.

Sandra Petcov

Fundamentals still do not support a strong rebound in German retail sales: real compensation per employee is declining noticeably and, even though unemployment has started to fall, employment is still on a downward trend.

James Connolly

What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great.

Hasitha Premaratne

Given the declining inflationary scenario, inflation should further drop in March due to seasonal factors and supply improvements that would help the food index to take a breather.

Todd Cherry

The region is declining as part of the state's overall labor market.

David Hanson

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

M. Thompson

There is a distinction between something that has gone through an editorial process as opposed to something put up by someone that has been through none of those processes,

Katharine Weymouth

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.

Lionel Barber

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

Michael Wolf

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

James Carville

He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough.

James Carville

He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.

Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

James Salter

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Matthew Storin

Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.

Madonna Madonna

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Diane Wakoski

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

David Brock

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Bill Nye

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Steve Boylan

The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone,

Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

George Pataki

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Garry Marshall

I think on the first day we get there everyone will have a peak at the Indian training session to see who's there.

Clark Kellogg

I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other places.

Richard Armitage

We have to seize the moment, ... probe the minds of the Pakistanis and Indians to see if there is not a way to lower the temperature.

J. Hoover

You'd like to see Indiana State a little later on in the schedule, but what are you going to do? We just have to get ourselves ready for that match. No excuses.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Brad Huse

I talked with him last week. But I had no idea the Indiana thing was going down.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

William Sullivan

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

John Arquilla

They're not using satellite phones. They're using Web sites and posing as teenage girls.

Rod Stewart

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

David Richardson

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?