Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

William Kamkwamba

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Christina Baker Kline

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Michael Korda

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Otto Rehhagel

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

Timothy Ferriss

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Werner Heisenberg

The very act of observing disturbs the system.

Yogi Berra

You can see a lot just by observing.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Condoleezza Rice

We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Champ Bailey

I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Stanley Brand

I'm not going to get into responding to these things.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Victor Borge

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?