Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacy Schiff

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

M. Wolfe

I like to say that I provide pain relief to people whose lives are cluttered with too much stuff. Getting your office organized can give you peace, serenity and can really simplify your life.

Jim Trett

By wearing them down we got it inside. The first half we had a tough time. They were really crowding (the inside). The second half they were worn down and it wasn't cluttered inside.

Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Robin Schneider

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Cass McCombs

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Charles Manson

I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb

Nancy Kress

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

Bruce Allen

We do need some new players on this team. We're getting to the situation where if we can have two more good drafts as good as the last two, we'll be OK.

Pete Carroll

Whatever team drafts him will get a productive player who should be in the league for a long time.

Mary Karr

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Marie Lu

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

Tom Florczak

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

Pat Roberts

We have several working drafts that we will give to members as of this week,

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Mark Adler

We always hope. So far we've been OK.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Chris Viale

They are shocked by the increases (in monthly payments) they are getting.

Avivah Litan

There will be more security holes. In the end, it increases the risks not decreases them.

Marshall Prentice

Sales are strong, but not at a peak, and price increases are slowing down, especially in the markets that took off first back in 1998 and 1999.

Paul Newsome

Rate increases is one of a number of questions that personal lines companies, like Allstate, will face.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Chris Daly

Even the slightest increases in temperature could have serious implications for Pacific Northwest snow and water issues.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

Tre Cool

They should legalize pot! Do it! DO IT!

John Bean

It's now legal to do photo speed enforcement as a solution in school zones.

John Patton

It's a perfectly legal enterprise. You can't pick and choose.

Rich Greenfield

This legal peer-to-peer music trading is going to be something you'll see a lot more of.

Friso Abbing

It says: You've contributed to the development of our countries, paid taxes and social security. As reward, we'll be making your legal position stronger.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

Mark Frauenfelder

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Anthony Karydakis

They are confirming in their own subtle way there are some more moves ahead, whether it is one, two or three rises.

Mark DiCamillo

they haven't made any real moves toward organizing a campaign.

Rudy Morrow

Rudy and I would play one-on-one and he would just pick me apart. He would tell me what moves he was going to make and he would still score on me. No one had really pushed me like that before.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

George Whalin

This was life-and-death for them, ... They had to make some moves to make this thing profitable.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Chris McGovern

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have always been a pencil.

Shakira

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.

Bruce Arena

Nothing is set in stone. But for the most part, I think we have a nucleus of 14, 15 16 players who we could pencil in now. ... We'll just have to wait and see.

Ken Hitchcock

There were some long games. There was some city-by-city emotion. There was a lot of anger. There was a lot of high-spirited competition. It was down to its most primitive level.

James Clarke

It doesn't really shout out tyrannosaurus when you first see it. That's because it is really a primitive tyrannosaur.

Kevin Doll

We often see that in this type of primitive operation.

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Robert Hormats

They're doing what's proved to work in the past, which is to tighten rates.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Mike Hass

Even after the years I've had in college, having proved myself, everyone still wants to see something else from me.

Donald Rumsfeld

was accurate, and will be proved to be accurate.

William Blake

What is now proved was only once imagined.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Richard Martin

The thing we had a lot of requests for is American flags. Everyone wants those. We're out of them now but we're trying to get more as quickly as possible.

Marjorie Brody

Don't tiptoe. Everyone sees you. Just get set up quickly and quietly and get ready to be part of the meeting.

Thomas p Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Jon Gruden

We had to do this the right way and get well quickly in the draft,

Ozzie Guillen

We're going to use him as quickly as we can.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Chris Kennedy

It was a little weird at first because we're being taught by a teacher from a video screen and we communicate through a microphone. We're actually interacting with students in a totally different state.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Justin Abnee

Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Jerry Stiller

We are even better looking on the small screen

Glenn Ford

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

Charlotte Rampling

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Bill Gates

I did not even finish my studies

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Josh Beekman

It's all about how much time you have. When they're out having fun, it's our time to study and do what we've got to do.

Aaron Thompson

It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Kingsley

Study nature as the countenance of God.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

William Wordsworth

A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.

Craig Kilborn

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Brian Regan

The big yellow one is the sun!

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Aristotle

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Ben Hecht

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.