Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.

Albert Pujols

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Martin Jol

We have a terrific young squad but we lack a winning mentality which you can only get through experience. He has the mentality to help us make a big step. Everybody tells me we have the players, but we have to prove it. Away from home we have to do better. Edgar can help us.

Ray Bradbury

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Samantha Shannon

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

Sanjay Kumar

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Alexander Herzen

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Mark Lawrenson

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Nick Faldo

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

David Meyer

We remember those who gave their lives and lost their lives. We also remember those touched by recent tragedy.

Kenneth Jay Lane

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

Michael Scharf

What they really want to do is prove that he gave the order,

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Joan Maloney

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

Marcelo Porto

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

Richard Gardner

By year end, Microsoft will have introduced a major upgrade to every one of its significant platform and application products.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Drake Bell

I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.

Cameron Mackintosh

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm going to make sure that it will be introduced again. ... And I know the legislators don't like it, but I will keep pushing.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

Martin Seligman

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Donna Harper

It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jacob, was a sophomore here. He had written a paper about John Steinbeck. He wanted to present this paper at one of the conferences I went to, but I told him they didn't let students do that.

Joe Gottfried

They met with John (Wednesday), but other than that, there's no changes. He didn't say a whole lot about (the interview). We talked some about it, but it's just he and I talking (about it).

John Chamberlain

This is a film of John Chamberlain and his friends on acid,

David Garrow

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Kevin Keen

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Larry Davis

It's kind of a non-issue. If it were in his left side, it would've been more of an issue.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Jeffrey Lichtman

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

Kevin Wright

They stacked the line of scrimmage and then spied Darren. That left nobody on the quarterback. We'll take whatever people will give us.

Kilari Paul

They said 'You get on and go,' and they left him behind.

Pete Johnson

There was no sign of life from the devastation left by Katrina.

Jonathan Klein

There weren't that many options left that made sense for someone of Aaron's stature, ... a mutual decision.

Capt. Ready

They tried to recruit some students from Dowling Middle School.

Mimi Rodriguez

It's an unwritten rule that the middle passenger should get two armrests.

Cameron Crowe

I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.

Lance Armstrong

There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,

Jacqueline Roberts

It was the middle of the night. We waited for the ambulance for 45 minutes.

Ed Parkinson

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It was important for me to do my best. It was really hot. In the middle of the race you are tired. It's important to concentrate.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.