Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

Jonathan Agnew

He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time

John Cornyn

I think the president does have an opportunity now after admittedly a very bad week to turn things around and to show why the people of this country re-elected him just one short year ago,

John Scofield

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

John Adams

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.

Stuart Fraser

The background has been encouraging so I don't think it's just a Christmas rally to expire completely in January. We've seen good confidence numbers from the U.S. and Germany, stronger growth, inflation well contained. The oil price is admittedly sticking a bit around $60 but it isn't going up anymore.

James Joyce

Ever looked sufficiently at a quite everyday looking stamped addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its fortune: it exhibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever p

Richard Flanagan

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Milt Palacio

He just said some things about us being casual in the fourth quarter. Same things the coach said. That was it.

Jon Daniels

He is the highlight of many late-afternoon casual conversations in the clubhouse.

Drew Houston

To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

John Brady

I thought our team was a little casual to start the game and didn't play with a lot of enthusiasm. Maybe they were looking back on the Ohio State game and anticipating what we're doing on Saturday.

Gene Johnson

It isn't the same as it was. What students could casually say 10 years ago, they know that if they get into those kinds of conversations (today), they're going to be facing pretty dire consequences.

Doug Brooks

If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that you are a Westerner, and take you out. A lot of the casualties are from situations like that.

James Reston

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Kevin Costner

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Andrew Krepinevich

The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Glenn Patton

He is still interested in an international research center. It would be a national research center with a lot of national funding. He's had some connections with the Homeland Security Department, by which he will end up with some real major federal grants for homeland security research.

Bill Brown

What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world. It's quite sophisticated.

Steve Johnson

Having the same power without going overboard with the power is essential, ... Running power to the center of a data center can get kind of pricey, particularly with a tight budget.

John Beilein

He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.

Brian Dunlap

Our meet centered on the medley and running it fast. That time gives us a chance. We'll see if it sticks.

Rob Rickell

Our new designs represent the first major change in constant-velocity joint (CVJ) technology in more than 70 years. Teamwork played a major role in the development process. Engineering groups working together at company research centers in Germany, Mexico, Spain and the USA were able to develop production-ready components in less than three years.

David Wimhurst

Our mission was to verify that the voting centers the electoral council had selected physically existed. It had never been our job to determine the location of voting centers.

Brian Henderson

In that last game, we didn't play that good for 1 1/2 periods. We had to keep it tighter this time. They scored five goals in front of the net on a few shots. We couldn't let them feed the puck to center ice.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Doug Porter

It clearly shows that the U.S. economy is very strong and isn't slowing down. That doesn't bode well for the possibility of inflation and it doesn't bode well for the outlook for the U.S. dollar.

Bob Pack

The purpose was clearly to seek to protect the lychee crop,

Ariel Sharon

The people clearly opted for my plan, ... Political forces must follow the wishes of the electorate.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.

Lilly Singh

I know the video platform so, so, so well. I know the perfect mixture of how comedic a piece has to be, what the video has to be like, what the song has to sound like, to make it successful.

Jerry Seinfeld

It really was written and geared for a very specific audience, but our comedic strength trumps all of that. The subject matter, the dialogue, the tone isn't right for most of America.

Cory Hardrict

'Warm Bodies' is a love story: a zombie-human being love story. And people are comparing it to 'Twilight,' but I think it's three times better. It has a comedic twist to it as well.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.

Casey Wilson

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

Keenen Wayans

As a parent, I think it's important for kids to have a source of entertainment that deals with life in positive and comedic ways.

Jerry Seinfeld

The show had an intense comedic energy that you do not find on other shows. There's an intense comedic scene happening all the time, and that's the way we tried to make them, really packed, tight, strong ? and that just holds the audience.

Miranda Hart

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

Reggie McNeal

I would (switch) if I had to, but I feel like I'm a quarterback. If I get drafted and they switch me, that will be it.

Kevin Reilly

Katie O'Connell was a top draft pick when she joined NBC last year and she's done a terrific job turning the lights on in our New York development office.

Jon Gruden

Having all of our draft picks is something that I've learned to like.

Michael Ryder

He's doing all right. He was sure excited to be drafted by Calgary, that's for sure. He's doing really well, actually.

Sigi Schmid

He should be getting some minutes for us this year. That's our expectation. That's why we drafted him. If we didn't expect him to play, we wouldn't have taken him.

Fernando Clavijo

His value is never going to be higher. We got him here for nothing and now get a first-round draft pick, perhaps a second, and Martins.

Herman Edwards

He's going to play right away. That's what we drafted him for.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think the only people who could conceivably be talking about a draft are people who are speaking from pinnacles of near-perfect ignorance.

Ray Richardson

I thought our draft was a huge success, ... We got everyone we wanted. This will give us a good start.

Richard O'Brien

The only thing that really drives me is to try and sort myself out and find some kind of psychological and spiritual growth within me.

Liem Nguyen

We transitioned our lineup away from hard drives to focus on flash players.

Jason Blum

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

Tiger Woods

He drives it great, hits his irons really well. When he gets that putter rolling, he can really put up some good numbers.

John Malcolm

Inevitably, when you have successes it drives people elsewhere. We know we're never going to completely eradicate this kind of piracy, but the progress has been remarkable.

Page Thompson

It has to have a look that people will be happy to see for a long period of time, while still having an image that drives home what you are trying to sell.

Andre Miller

I just think he's been more aggressive. He's knowing when to score, he's mixing up his shot with drives and getting to foul line. The main thing is, he's not just relying on his jump shot, he's getting to the basket.

Davis III

I remember playing practice rounds with him in 2000, and he'd hit these drives and you'd say, 'Wow, that is so far and so straight,' ... You never say that anymore. It was frightening playing with him then. In the last year and a half or so I'm driving it right with him.

Scott Boras

I haven't talked to Greg about it, and he drives the train here.

Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Steve Stirling

The turning point was the second period with all the penalties. We took some silly, needless penalties there.

Gregory Estes

The detailer was the one to offer putting him on the ship with me. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Mark Howard

It was entertaining to some people, it's just not who we are. Needless to say, there will not be an encore performance for Lisa.

Cindy Osbrink

Needless to say, we are devastated. She had everything going for her.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

Dick Vermeil

Needless to say, I'm very, very proud of how well they played.

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.

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.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

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

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Philip Hoffman

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

Kristy Curry

They were panicked a little bit. (As a coach), you just stay calm, poised, teach and have some confidence.

Lindsay Davenport

I wasn't panicked and I wasn't uptight about anything.

David Reynolds

Connecticut right now is not in the mainstream. We have 44 states that have passed some type of parental notification law. Connecticut's legislature has never even had a public hearing.

Sonny Landham

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

Marilyn Manson

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

Kim Kardashian

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

Ray Brown

That's nothing. He also thinks he's a pregnant woman.

Jason Giambi

It's relaxed a lot more. It's a lot better, definitely.

Bill Shaw

This may be as relaxed as I've been.

Kevin Garnett

It relaxed me and I was actually able to think clearly.

Lucy Fry

I'm a relaxed person, and I kind of just wear anything; I don't put that much time and care into planning an outfit.

Kaya Scodelario

Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done.

Jason Pires

Once we got that first win, everyone sort of relaxed a little bit.

Jane Campion

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Claire Forlani

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

Cindy Chin

We're very casual. It's more relaxed that way.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Gary Hume

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,