Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Kevin Williamson

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

John Gray

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Daniel Yergin

Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia.

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Dick Bruna

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

Christopher Young

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

Timothy Spall

What appealed to me was that here was this man who, on the one hand, liked to sing and entertain in local pubs, but who was also the most proficient killing machine of the last century. I was drawn to the incongruity of it.

Curtis Adams

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.

John Lasseter

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

Nathan Barankin

We know that this case, no matter how it's decided by Judge Fogel, is going to be appealed to the 9th Circuit and probably to the U.S. Supreme Court, so it's very important for us to get the case done right.

Serge Schmemann

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

Andrew Collins

Banks are now recognized as providers of financial services.

Masafumi Nakayama

Bad-loan disposal is the single most important task for banks at the moment. Apparently, the market is sending a cheer to Asahi's efforts.

Jim Bruene

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Andrew Bell

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

David Lindsey

This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Edmund Phelps

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

Richard Shelby

Most banks can sell your information-your balances, your address, your Social Security number-without your permission. That's violating your confidentiality. That's breaking your trust. I think it's important to change that, don't you?

Cheryl Potter

We drove to several banks and someone said they found her behind New River Shopping Center,

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Abel Ferrara

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Peter Mueller

The short end was pricing in too many rate hikes from the ECB. Yields are high enough, and I see more potential for recovery in the short end than the long end.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

Mahathir Mohamad

Businesses, large and small, have been bankrupted. The social well-being of the people has been disrupted.

James Macdonald

More and more production is starting to shift into some very large operations.

Beckie Rolbiecki

From just being comfortable to have seen the large crowd. It's the same gymnastics; it's just in a different arena.

Randy Le

If a patient needs to talk to a pharmacist, there is often a long wait at a large pharmacy. But one of us is always here, and we are immediately available.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Craig Ferguson

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Bon Scott

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Brooke Burke

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Elihu Root

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.