Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kelly

Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies; they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.

Gong Li

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.

Steven Yeun

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors.

Colleen Hanabusa

Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Andy Lau

He said if the stars can work together, we won't lose to any Asian movies or even foreign films,

Zhang Qiyue

It hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and other Asian countries. We urge the Japanese government to treat seriously the issue with the correct attitude.

O. Singh

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

Richard Florida

L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity.

Desmond Lachman

I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going on at the same time, all of which aren't very good. We've got the Japanese yen going to eight-year lows, we've got talk about devaluation in China, we've got Hong Kong coming under attack and we've got a number of other Asian economies just showing incredible signs of weakness.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Terry Eagleton

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Brewster Kahle

Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.

Daniel Handler

People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.

Maria Cantwell

open their books, so we can evaluate whether supply has been manipulated.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Carlos Martinez

This is how I passed my time was reading his book.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Theodore Pappas

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

W. Hull

I just realized I can't be Brett Hull at 30 or 25, ... I was Brett Hull at 41.

Dar Williams

I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,

Justine Bateman

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

Mark Spitz

I realized I had to step up to the responsibilities of my dream.

Paul Taylor

I realized if I didn't stop taking it, it was going to kill me,

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Wilfrid Sheed

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

Wynton Marsalis

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Don Fehr

They can review anything they want to review.

Patricia Arquette

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

Sean William Scott

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Tim Wagner

We have not had time to review it and have no comment.