Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Wood

JAMDAT's experience in creating fun and innovative games that appeal widely to wireless consumers makes them the ideal partner to bring my legendary TV quiz show, Bullseye, to mobile phones.

Bob Harlan

I think the fact they were scheduling without knowing if Brett Favre is going to be back, and they still gave us three national games, shows you the Green Bay Packers are still an appealing draw. The ratings were good last year even when we weren't playing well. I think it speaks well for us (considering) where we are. I think it's still a popular franchise and we still get ratings.

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jana Peri

I think the best songs written are the ones that make you laugh or make you cry. When I perform I like to appeal to your ears, eyes and crotch. I want to hit it all.

Michael Dell

What we are trying to do is appeal to customers with technological experience.

Steve Cochrane

We support EPA Administrator Carol Browner's effort to vigorously appeal this wrong-headed court decision. The public health and environmental community stand firmly behind her. And so do the American people.

Philip Schiller

We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.

Joe Nathan

I think it's the cardinal's vision and the pope's vision that it would be a center that would appeal to a lot of people. The hope was that it wasn't going to be 10 people giving millions each ... but millions each giving $1.

John Aiken

It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

J. Courtney Sullivan

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

William Greene

I just didn't know what to expect. . . . There's no substitute for experience. Now I realize I need to work a lot harder off the field. It's not about just getting out there and running, it's about studying and knowing your opponent and knowing the job you've got to do.

Barry Bonds

I'm used to it. It's harder with my leg, though, a lot harder. Why should it be different past to present?

H. Hunt

If the purpose was to simplify the process, why are we throwing up obstacles? ... Where I'm hearing this going is that we're making it harder ... for an overlay than for a conservation district.

Jeff Taylor

If there's savings there, we can work a little longer, a little harder on some work projects in the summer.

Joni Pitkanen

I push myself to play harder and I feel stronger. Just keep going.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Madeline Albright

He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe,

Lynda Carter

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Shamkhi Faraj

The investment law could take some time and we are not prepared to wait for that long.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Stephen Jarislowsky

They wouldn't make that kind of investment if they just wanted to turn around and sell the bank.

Brian Harrison

It's in response to a very strong investment return last year.

Tyra Banks

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

Mandy Moore

I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

Lester Bowie

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

George Carlin

What are you going to do, play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years,>Read People Magazine your whole life...? Take a freakin' chance!

Dolly Parton

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something ... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then

Andrew Denton

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Preston Manning

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Tom Goguen

There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Eddie Einhorn

All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults