Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Young

There is no place in Australian cricket for racism, whether it be on or off the field.

Dave Gorman

What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack,

Shane Oliver

U.S. interest rates are pretty close to the top. By year- end it is quite likely the Fed will be shifting toward easing monetary policy and investors will be starting to wonder about a renewed widening in the Australian and U.S. interest-rate gap.

Peter Singer

As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Ashley Davis

A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary policy. We expect the Reserve Bank of Australia to lift rates toward the end of the year and early next, while we expect New Zealand's economy to slow sharply next year.

Eddie Jones

It's a sign of the times. You only have to look at the changes to the Australian Schoolboys line-ups over the past four or five years,

Michael Kennedy

They passed through the regular channels of the Australian immigration system, but they had to wait to ski for Australia.

Scott Morrison

This exciting new campaign provides a compelling and uniquely Australian invitation to the world that celebrates our personality, our lifestyle and our place. It has been carefully designed to cut through the clutter and motivate international tourists to stop putting it off and visit Australia now.

John Howard

They should pick up the tab, not the Australian taxpayer.

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Norman MacCaig

There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

Adam Rothberg

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nina Jacobson

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Nikki Grimes

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Mike Eaves

When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.

Matt Kujovsky

We wanted to throw more but the line just wasn't giving Brian protection so I didn't feel confident with it.

Tom Osborne

Wood has Brian Ellis, and he is a great quarterback and can make some big plays. So I am really proud of our kids. I think we've got a good group.

John Schuerholz

It's a special story. You look at the hometown guys like Kyle Davies, Jeff Francoeur, Blaine Boyer and Brian McCann, and to see the role they're playing on the team right now, there couldn't be a better story in baseball.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of people were excited because we tied the game. But in the meanwhile, the entire team was excited because Brian did it.

Kyle Petty

It's no secret that I love driving sports car and especially racing in the Rolex 24. Brian has been generous enough to let me share this ride, and it's pretty cool to have Boris as a teammate as well. Boris is a tremendous road-racer and he has proved he can win in anything he races. Brian is a competitor, too, but more importantly, he's just a great guy. I'm excited about this weekend.

Mike Love

It's a little weird because the people around him have him focused on a solo career, so he's going off and doing his Brian Wilson solo endeavors, ... That's the direction they've chosen to go in. It's OK, but I'd be open to doing something with him if the opportunity presented itself.

Mike Love

It's a little weird because the people around him have him focused on a solo career, so he's going off and doing his Brian Wilson solo endeavors, ... That's the direction they've chosen to go in. It's OK, but I'd be open to doing something with him if the opportunity presented itself.

Mark Zoller

It's a little different to me playing a 7-foot guy and Brian being undersized as well.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Marc Short

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Richard Hell

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,

Mike Johnson

There are certain types of situations when it is more likely.

Rae Tyson

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

Tom Atkins

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

Juice Newton

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

Paul Moran

Sean is real tough, and Garner was tremendous tonight.

Atul Lele

For Patrick, it's great for shareholders because it should see them garner a higher price.

Bryan Rice

He has a great pedigree and presented himself well at the track. We hoped he would garner something around $500,000. But we are still pleased.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Antony Sher

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

C. S. Lewis

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Alan Rudolph

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Alan Kay

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Charles Sanders Peirce

My language is the sum total of myself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Bernard Malamud

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Charles Chafer

It's a symbolic gesture. Nobody actually, officially named a star.

Andy Williams

After being named MVP, I was pretty shocked,

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Raphael Saadiq

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

Jerry Orbach

You'd say, 'All of these shows couldn't have been running at the same time. Not 'South Pacific' and 'Mister Roberts' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman' ... yeah, they were.

Jack Beven

Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Ron Gardenhire

That was kind of ugly. That's a little disappointing. Like I told you, that's why we haven't named our staff yet, because you never know what's going to happen.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Sam Bush

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

Tommy Franks

They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,

Larry Kane

They had a wonderful sense of themselves, and they were very smart,

Alice B. Toklas

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Ann Wilson

For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.