Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

Billie Armstrong

A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'

James Joyce

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Barack Obama

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Sgt. Wright

The driver told officers that ?she always asks to drive and I always say yes?.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm sure businesses have been affected, but they are very positive and very patient.

Joe Hogan

Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.

John Gage

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

Brad Anderson

We exceeded our revenue expectations for December, which positions us well for our fiscal fourth quarter. We're pleased and encouraged by the fact that virtually all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations for December. As usual, customers shopped later than ever and results strengthened as the month progressed. Our employees capitalized on the trend with strong offers and improved in-stock positions.

Frank Fahrenkopf

We are the engine of the economy there, ... If the goal of creating an economic opportunity zone is to get businesses running and people back to work, it's counterintuitive that they are not going to include the largest employer.

Martin Gleeson

I think he (the owner) was going into one of the businesses that are located at that address. He left it running. The perpetrator saw it as an opportunity.

Kent Newcomb

I think GE is going to go back to its core businesses and refocus on them. The company has been growing very strongly. We expect the growth to continue despite a very soft economy. I think at the end of the day they'll wash their hands and move on.

Jennifer Merchant

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's houses and businesses down. We have to look at a financial impact; when we look at environment only, where we've been for the last 20 years, it doesn't necessarily work.

Michael Eisner

We intend to make our businesses more efficient, increase our cash flow, and position ourselves to better capitalize on the long-term growth potential of our brands,

Lara Rhame

This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.

Robert E. Lee

At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine.

Richard Pound

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

Devan Downey

Right now I'm just living on this. After the season, whatever happens, happens. Right now I'm not even thinking about it, I'm concerned about this team.

Jorge Fernandez

I am very concerned about the future of the country. I think it's time for the country to have a female president. She's been around. She has a plan.

Kyle Walker

From a voter's perspective, it's a very simple process. They register to vote. They go to vote. And that's all that they should be concerned with.

James Williams

I have been in contact with his family. I will continue to be in contact with his family, and they are obviously concerned about him and this situation.

Joe Mesi

I was not concerned about my health by any means. I knew I would be rusty, and I was. It was what I expected.

Richard Wagner

Little steps are being taken that may be in the right direction, ... It's the rate of progress I'm concerned about.

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Dalai Lama

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Annie Proulx

and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.

Conrad Burns

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Albert Camus

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Cindy Klassen

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Herb Sendek

Those are tough shots. It's one thing to make that putt in your office on your carpet. That same distance putt at Augusta's a little tougher.

Thomas More

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Carl Davis

Employees are told right from the start that there is to be no interaction.

Steve Bolman

Each year, we have new employees, and we need to make sure that they and other employees know the process and procedures that are in place.

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers, and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

Janet Hansen

It's an issue of how you treat your employees and make your plans. We're not going to skip any tournaments. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to have the kids suffer for it.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

John M. Smith

Everything I have is here. My family is the most important thing.

Dusty Baker

Besides, ... I knew his family had come down to see him, and I wanted to get him in the game.

Alicia Silverstone

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

Amanda Lindhout

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Noam Chomsky

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

Noam Chomsky

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Noam Chomsky

The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

Joe Scarborough

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

Dick Peecher

She's very loyal. They were the first school to recruit her.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

E. B. White

When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.

Jon Corzine

a little nervous, a little worried but confident.