Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonya Hartnett

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Brian McInerney

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

John Surtees

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

Nick Leeson

The ticket price was dictated by the promoter and may have been too high,

Hanno Langenhoven

The route to a destination is dictated by the start location of the one that makes the journey.

Paul Dergarabedian

Especially the younger people (who) are used to, 'I can plug in my video game and play it now,' 'I can download music and hear it now,' 'I can take my iPod with me and listen to it wherever and whenever I want.' Going to the movies requires that you're on a time frame and in a location that's dictated by someone else.

Maurice Jackson

We dictated the game, and that's what we wanted to do.

Thomas Stith

What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor. Everyone has a role to play in the community, everyone has a lead role, and I would think our funding would be dictated by that.

Dave Smith

We tried to work for high percentage shots, we need to. Horton wasn't going to give us any easy baskets. They dictated the pace of the game pretty good.

Stephen Harper

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Cecilia Munoz

We are expressing our hopes that the Senate will do something different.

Viktor Yushchenko

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Leonard Downie

He made a mistake going on television, giving his opinions about the investigation. ... He shouldn't have been expressing those opinions, ... Reliable Sources.

Claire Tomalin

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

Bill Watterson

If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet! Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying something significant. Expressing ideas if you can't make them understood. You're just babling to yourself!

Chris Kilham

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Judy Jeffrey

I know other communities would be very interested in how to put the funding together for something like this.

John McKay

It's not a lack of initiative or a lack of trying. The funding is simply not there right now.

Fran Ackley

It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent.

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Jerry Brookings

He showed me how to lead a band, which was something I had always wanted to do.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Steve Alford

To come in here and lead start-to-finish, there are not a lot of people doing that.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Kerry Sutton

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Umberto Eco

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Tucker Max

Opinions are projections.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Pete Carroll

I'm not worried about it. People have opinions and can think anything they want,

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.