Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Keith Miller

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Kate DiCamillo

Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.

David Harris

I can go a year before an oil change.

Richard Schickel

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Margaret Halsey

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Bob McKenzie

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Warren Buffett

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

Warren Rudman

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Theo Staub

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Glenn Wilson

(Kalamazoo has) a great manager and a great staff. They're an outstanding team that just went through a Rockford club that I was very scared of.

Scott Boras

I talk to whoever the club wants me to negotiate with. But I do think that's the longest period I've gone without ever talking to a GM.

Martin Allen

I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me.

Jose Mourinho

I always feel that with a president, an owner - it depends on the structure of the club and the country - the players generally like to see him.

Rupert Lowe

Harry said that it was now impossible for him to come back to the club and that, in his words, he had been let down.

Richard Caborn

Whatever the surplus the clubs will save as a consequence of a salary cap, what better way to use the extra money than to give some of it back to their fans.

Ralf Rangnick

We're proud that Fabian has decided to join us. There were a lot of clubs interested.

Ted Hellard

We're in the middle of the negotiating season and many clubs have already signed player contracts. It would be pretty unrealistic to tell those teams now that we will implement a new system.

Jamie Carragher

We've got to have respect for the players at our club and hopefully they can do the damage for us. We've got a lot of good strikers.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

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.

Masa Takayama

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

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

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

David Walton

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

David Chase

I don't know. When I talk to people, they seem to want it to come back. If somebody wants to watch another show, that's great.

Dominick Romero

I don't know what that was. Zone or man, it didn't seem to matter.

Craig Bellamy

He doesn't seem too worried about anything or overawed,

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Dale Maharidge

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

Paula Deen

Their space was very small ... so it was a real challenge.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

James Fenton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Tom Anderson

That's right on top of us. It would be right in our backyard.

Stuart Appleby

It will be one of our top 10 doing something,

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.