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.

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Alex Procel

That was a bad scene, but Luis is in good spirits now, and it's not easy to be that way when you're in this kind of situation. He's got a lot of therapy to do. We're not even thinking about an estimated riding time right now. We just want to get him back 100%, and if it takes a while, that's OK.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Dan Whitney

People are starting to see that earnings aren't as bad as they initially thought. It's boosting a market that got pretty beat up.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Lewis Mandell

People don't remember the Depression. People who are younger just really believe that nothing bad can happen to them. Either they think Social Security is going to be there for them when they retire, or they may feel that the government will never let them starve.

Don Otto

People had been looking out the south window (of the house) for 20 years before they even saw the courthouse in view. I just feel really bad that the building would be turned into a pile of rubble and used to fill up the landfill.

Mark Powell

People go through a bad event like that, and they want to feel it was something it couldn't be prevented. In a lot of cases, it can be prevented.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Elton John

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Bunny Richardson

We have plans in place that can be adapted, changed and modified to respond if we need to do that.

Natalie Cole

When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Bobby Collins

Big John did a tremendous job of anchoring down in the paint. He definitely changed the course of the game.

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06, primarily because that's when the major effects will hit, we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06 - primarily because that's when the major effects will hit - we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.

Anne Enright

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Brian Gorman

This would be unprecedented and, needless to say, would have tremendous effects on fishermen. But we don't see around this, is what we're saying. No flexibility.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Stewart Brand

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Ron Finley

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Michael Shermer

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

John Muir

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Spike Milligan

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Kevin Reilly

It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.

Joshua Chamberlain

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

Walter Kirn

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Daniel Kahneman

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.