Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Bertrand Russell

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

Ralph Fiennes

Justin's journey traces not only what Tessa was investigating, he's also playing detective about their relationship,

Decio Hopffer

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

Kay Pierce

God did it. God and Detective Wise. I can't praise them enough.

John Walsh

Just yesterday, detectives filled in 20 minutes. They talked with someone, and they are still talking with witnesses.

Hugh Graf

When he showed up, expecting another easy mark, the detectives were waiting with handcuffs.

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Lee Grant

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Margot Kidder

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

Katharine Blake

It surprised everybody because the initial motivation was just recreationally oriented, but we all share a fascination with all things romantic and the mediaeval period, that enigmatic period is open to a lot of interpretation.

Harry Hamlin

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Steve Winwood

And also there hasn't been much footage of Traffic either. There is very little in existence and since Traffic is a very enigmatic and unusual band, we thought that now was the time to put this out and give people a taste of what Traffic was really about.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

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.

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Ze Frank

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

Felix Hernandez

I have fun, but I think about the games. But, I don't think I obsess about it.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

Mildred Ellison

Now teachers and principals at our schools can go up there for the training because it's just amazing.

Kenneth Trump

I don't think the principal is doing anything radical.

Roger Fox

It's sad, because she's an outstanding teacher and he was a very strong principal as well.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.