Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Anthony Marra

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

John Alexander

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Jim Smith

There is a strong need for people with some construction and carpentry experience. But everyone is needed.

Sadie Davis

I'm being taught the carpentry skills. I'm being taught how to level stuff off and to cut stuff and measurement and the difference kinds of wood.

David Ho

As a public broadcaster, we chose to encode our surround sound format in Circle Surround as a unique way enhance the quality and range of our broadcasting services,

Ed Vargo

Problems can be handled in a few different ways, including wood piles to support the school or trucking in compacted fill, which is a combination of sand or stone to support the structure. We chose wood piles to support the school,

Juan Sanchez

People chose who they are in their hearts.

Petter Solberg

It was very slippery. We thought the road would dry out quicker than it did...I think we chose a tyre that was too hard. I'm disappointed by my gap to the leaders but that's how it is.

Andy Roddick

That's not a surprise (that the Belgians chose clay). But it's fine. I think we had a good week of practice and we're optimistic about this weekend.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Greg Dierks

Erin put a great deal of time into her search for a college and I think she found a gem in Roanoke. I know she is very happy there and I am excited for Kelsey that she chose to go there as well.

Anne Lamott

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

M. Wolfe

Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think it's a step forward for our community.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

Bob Woodruff

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Steve Foley

This is something I've sought after my whole career. I look at myself as the leader on and off the field, vocally and in my actions. I try to lead by example. The point I'm at right now in my career, I'm so happy I'm having the opportunity to do these things, I really can't explain it.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Ritchie McKay

Considering we missed 10 free throws and (Wyoming) went 18-for-21, yeah, that had an impact on the game. I think we have missed some opportunities by not making free throws. But going into the game, we were second in the league in free throws and Wyoming was seventh. I'm not sure how to explain that.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

Rick Carlisle

Anthony Johnson played a terrific game. He's playing with great aggressiveness and savvy and understanding the pulse of the team he is running.

Walter Cronkite

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.

Henry Mason

And that was a great help to us in selling Lance on Wisconsin.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Alex Davis

Big River. Trent Anthony invited me to Young Life in my eighth-grade year, and I have been involved ever since.

Fred Funk

I'm still in shock that I was invited to be in this thing,

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

John Lackey

Nolensville has been invited to the party, and they didn't show up to the dance.

Bryan Greenberg

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

Francis Mathew

Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.

Greg Gazin

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Nora Roberts

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Ken Kendrick

We are thrilled to have Josh join our staff,

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Jerry York

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.

Roland Martin

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

Jaime Sarbaugh

Your life is much more important than your things.

Arthur Smith

You're not putting your life on the line to save the people of the village, ... I am.

Martin Freeman

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

David Tennant

You're more emotional. I like the way you play that stuff. My life has naturally moved on. I'm taking everything in my stride.

Lois Lowry

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

Miguel Cabrera

You're going to remember all your life this time.

Bow Wow

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Archilochus

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Mike DeWine

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

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.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.