Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Bangs

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

Harold Bloom

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Robert McChesney

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Alfred Kazin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Chuck Klosterman

I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.

Mel Gussow

Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.

Robert McChesney

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if it doesn't have pleasure and interest, then it does not have life. And the same must be true about writing about literature.

Robert McChesney

Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.

Jenny Nash

The one half of 1 percent applies to vote totals between candidates or whether a ballot measure is approved or rejected,

Siri Hustvedt

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Bob Doyle

Basically, there is no change when it applies to companies that are already operating successfully in Venezuela, like ourselves. It must be understood that the subsoil resources do belong to the Venezuelan people and that any arrangement to explore and exploit for mineral resources is conditioned on that fact.

Maureen Hall

My view is that when you justify one you have to justify all. Suffice to say selection was based on performance and the progress that was made in training and that applies to everybody.

Diana Ossana

Michelle picked up on every beat in the story. She's from Montana, she has that background; there are things she grasps intuitively. The phrase 'still waters run deep' completely applies to her.

Atharva Veda

He performs worship ceremonies, applies the ceremonial tilak mark to his forehead, and takes his ritual cleansing baths; he pulls out his knife, and demands donations.

Brian Kennedy

I can't tell you exactly what a package would look like coming from this committee in the next several months. But I can tell you the chairman prefers a comprehensive national framework that will be flexible and survive into the future, as opposed to a more piecemeal approach that applies to only one or two areas.

Gordon Strachan

I can't comment on players who are involved with their particular clubs in the future, and the same applies to Wayne Bridge.

John Darby

It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Marianne Williamson

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

Quetel Osterval

People can have the mentality, the mindset and basically you can't change that. But what we can . . . establish some form of relationship so people can see that everybody is able and capable of helping each other. We have to work together to make that happen.

Vanilla Ice

People don't understand it's really a hard thing, because I was here in the early '90s and... basically I was gone from over here. I've been doing my thing over in the States, but it's more underground than pop-ish, mainstream-ish, radio-friendly stuff, it's more underground. People have no clue what the hell Vanilla Ice has been up to.

Bryan Pierce

People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land and want to see it stay the way it is now.

Steve Giambanco

Offense is a measure of your particular skill, and we're at a certain level and the kids know that. Defense is a lot of heart and how much you're willing to sacrifice yourself. And our kids basically have, and I've been proud of them. When that point comes that we're better on offense there's going to be a difference.

Steven Cohen

Officer Rhodes has basically been flushed down the toilet.

Jonathan Vilma

Oh, big impact. He's pretty much up to speed already. He's going to be great for us. We have a shutdown corner on one side and David Barrett on the other, who's basically a shutdown corner as well. So it's going to be good.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Hermann Maier

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.