Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Mike Driscoll

Oil is strong and that is helping oil companies, but it is surprising the broader market is as strong as it is, given higher oil prices.

Tom Bailey

I've made rock records, classical records, jazz records, dub records. It always surprises me that people's own listening taste ranges from pop to hip-hop to jazz to rock, but if you're a musician who's been successful in one style, people won't let you have broader musical interests. It's ridiculous, really.

Jeff Moss

I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.

Tom Rath

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Rakesh Shankar

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Jendayi Frazer

So one would hope that China's investment would be broader and that it would contribute not only to China's development and growth ... but it would also contribute to Africa's growth and development.

James Gleick

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

Susanna Kearsley

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Joe Garcia

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

William Williams

Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.

Ogden Nash

Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.

Mary MacLane

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisiteas the pure love of one woman for another?

Lee Ielpi

Are there going to be love scenes in it? How do you portray it correctly? It has to be done with some reverence.

Michael Matthews

Aquaculture is a risky business. You don't go into aquaculture for the money. You do it because you love it.

Lisa Kudrow

And then, if you survive that, they love you again,

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Richard Lobb

The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Anne Spencer

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Anne Rice

Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

David Lynch

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Jane Smiley

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Sidney Poitier

I don't very often read novels.

May Sarton

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Ani Difranco

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

Dolly Parton

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

Dean Martin

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brett Favre

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Peter Bergman

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Anthony Edwards

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Steve McNair

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

Tamora Pierce

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Ray Allen

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Mason Cooley

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Chris Pearmund

For the first year of production, the wines will be made somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.